No Spin NewsBlog's for August, 2017http://www.BillOReilly.comBill O'Reilly2017-08-18T03:07:16Z2017-08-18T03:07:16ZBill O'ReillyO'Reilly on the Far-Left, the Media, and the Removal of Confederate StatuesBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Far-Left-the-Media-and-the-Removal-of-Confederate-Statues/310064681410414979.html2017-08-17T23:00:00Z2017-08-17T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday August 17th, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A wild Q&amp;A with Glenn Beck on his radio program this morning about the Charlottesville situation but more importantly about these far-left groups that are subverting our democratic process, how they're doing it, and how it's affecting the media, politics, and everything else.&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/f/Audio-Center?chartID=331&amp;pid=22129" target="_blank">We posted it on BillOReilly.com without the commercials so you can just cruise through it</a>.</p>
<p>I really recommend you listen to this. It's quite something. So let's begin today with a CBS poll. Now, CBS pulling outfit, not the greatest. But you know, these are snapshots that are worth considering, I think.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The first question was: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump has handled the response to Charlottesville? Approve, 34 percent. Disapprove, fifty-five percent. Don't know, twelve.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As you may know, Donald Trump clarified his statements on the events in Charlottesville Saturday and he explicitly criticized racist groups and violence. Do you feel it was necessary for Trump to make additional statements on Monday or was that not necessary? Necessary, 55 percent. Not necessary, 36. Don't know, not paying attention, 9.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, third question: So far, do you think the policies of the Trump administration have encouraged racial unity in the USA, have encouraged racial division in the U.S.A, or have not had any effect either way. Encourage racial unity, 12 percent. Encourage racial division, 44 percent. Not much effect, 39 percent. So when you add that up, that's 51-44. Not a trouncing. Which shows you the huge divide between the folks and the media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Final question: For you, from what have you heard or read do you consider the attack that lead to injuries and loss of life in Charlottesville to be an act of domestic terrorism or not? Yes, act of terrorism, 63 percent. No, not an act of domestic terrorism, 27.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It was terrorism. Look, just like today in Barcelona. In Barcelona, Spain, same thing. Same deal. Drives a car into a plaza where there are hundreds of people milling around trying to kill people. And this is what ISIS does. And this is what this guy in Charlottesville did. The same thing. No difference. So we should note that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, part of my conversation with Beck, we got into a number of things. The economic council that President Trump put together, he has now dissolved because some people resigned from that council. Now, some of them did it for conscience reasons, they don't like how Trump is conducting his presidency. OK. Their opinion, they have a right to do it. But many of them are doing it because pressure groups like Color of Change, Media Matters, are saying, " if you associate with Donald Trump at all, we're going to call for a boycott of your company."&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's what these people do. That's what they did to me. And they're paid to do it.</p>
<p>This doesn't happen on the far right. Only on the far left. So you had a bunch of people on that presidential council say "I'm going to resign." Again, some did it conscience, some did it out of fear. Same thing in the media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Believe me when I tell you, many, perhaps most commentators on cable news, not talk radio, that's a different thing, on cable news are frightened to have anything to do with Donald Trump right now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>One of the exceptions is Sean Hannity. Now, whether you agree with Hannity or not he's in for Trump and he's never wavered. And he's been threatened with boycotts all over the place. But to Hannity's credit, he attacks back. I wish I had, but there was a complicated reason why I didn't and I can't really get into that. But Hannity learned a lesson from me. And he's stating his case and he isn't wavering. Now, again you don't have to agree with him. But he has a right to say what he believes, not be threatened.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that's the conversation I had with Glenn Beck today that I hope you listen to.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want to bring in Peter Hasson, associate editor for The Daily Caller, who has researched some of these far-left pressure groups.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So let's get to Steve Bannon. I don't follow party politics much; you guys know that if you followed me for years. I'm not a party politics guy. The Trump administration, you know, to me they do what they do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I thought Kelly was a good appointment as chief of staff, the general. He's a no nonsense guy. He didn't look too thrilled about the Charlottesville presentation from the president. But the president has the final word.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Steve Bannon, a very close adviser to Donald Trump. He's a controversial guy. I don't believe a word they say about him because I always give people a presumption of innocence, always, no matter who they are. And I don't really follow the ins and outs of what Steve Bannon says.</p>
<p>So he gives an interview much like Scaramucci did to a non friendly entity and he comes out and he says some stuff about North Korea, there's no military solution. He calls the Nazis reprobates or whatever he does. He says that he has a lot of power, Steve Bannon says.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But to me this is all self-defeating for him. Again, I've got no pony in this carousel. I don't know Steve Bannon. I met him once. I don't know if the president listens to him, doesn't listen to him, I don't know any of that.</p>
<p>But to me, reading the situation, he's not going to be there much longer in the White House because Kelly, it's not Kelly's kind of guy. And the interview that he gave, you know, you look at those and you say "why bother? Why do this."&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Like Scaramucci's interview didn't make a lot of sense. And I think when it comes at that point, Trump's under siege, he's going to try to get the controversy lower, I think.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, we tape this podcast earlier in the day. By the time you're looking at it Bannon may be gone. Maybe out of here. You know, I think his days, or even hours, are numbered. All right, but I could be wrong. This is speculation. I don't like to do that but it's educated. You know, you see a pattern of behavior and that's the Bannon story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get to this statue thing. OK. This is another example of fascism. Now we're seeing the statues come down. Some of them should come down, as we discussed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We got a lot of good mail today, I'm going to spend a lot more time on the mail today than usual because there's some really good letters, thoughtful letters.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look here's a statue deal. If it's in historical context, as is Gettysburg, battlefield, that kind of thing. Certainly, Confederate generals and Confederate soldiers, certainly are fine. The war between the states was probably the most intense thing that's ever happened to this country. OK. You don't whitewash it. You don't black it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if it's an honor, if you're honoring a guy like Jefferson Davis, no. Jefferson Davis does not deserve to be honored at all. Neither do people like Nathan Bedford Forrest, we talked about this earlier this week, head of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War, he doesn't deserve it. So you can remove that statue, put it someplace else. Put it in the war between the states museum. That's OK. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So here's what's going on. In Baltimore, four monuments have been removed. Baltimore, you figured that, very liberal town, minority driven town, you figure that's going to happen. Durham, North Carolina you saw the Confederate soldier monument come down, toppled by far-left protesters while the cops allowed the vandalism.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gainesville, Florida, Confederate soldiers removed. New Orleans, for monuments removed. Annapolis calls for removal of Roger B Taney's statue. He was the chief justice in the Dred Scott decision, horrible decision. They don't want him around Annapolis.</p>
<p>Charlottesville, the Robert E. Lee statue getting taken out, that's what prompted the supremacist march.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jacksonville, Florida, Confederate monuments are being removed. Lexington, Kentucky, same thing. D.C., proposal to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol building park.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'd have to see those statues. I haven't seen them. The next time I get down to Washington I'm going to look at them. And then all across the country, Los Angeles, marker for Confederate vets removed. You know... all over the place this is happening.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, it&rsquo;s going to be a successful campaign. Even though President Trump tweeted today "Sad to see history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history. But you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, who's next? Washington, Jefferson? So foolish."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. And I think the majority of Trump supporters feel the same way. I have a little bit more of a nuanced thing. I think you have to see what the statue is, what the purpose of the statue is and make your decision.</p>
<p>As I said yesterday, and it is certainly valid, we fought World War I and II and defeated very bad people. Everyone should know about that and a statue would remind people about it, that we defeated Hitler, he put the little mustache. But you're never going to see that because he's such a heinous bad guy. In the Confederate army, there were some terrible people. All right, there were terrible people in the Union army. But the Union army was fighting for the preservation of the United States while the Confederates were fighting for a new country that headlined slavery. There's a big difference.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. And I'm going to deal with this a little bit more in the letter thing.</p>
<p>Finally, a terrible story in Utah. Twice deported man, 32-year-old Victor Francisco Michelle Laura, 32, twice deported, twice came back, three times came back. Snuck in, came back, came back. OK, three-time loser. And this is Kate's Law right here. Admits to abusing, sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl multiple times. The girl says thousands of times, but anyway he's being held at $200000 bail, which I thought was low, but I don't know. We're working on why that... bail should be a million. He's never going to get out. But again, I mean, look, this kind of stuff, you get three jumps over the border? No, no Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Let's get to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lawrence Monroe. Port Charlotte, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, you explain exactly what the left is doing. You kind of scared the hell out of me. I know you're speaking the truth but I don't want to see this country change into socialism or wherever the left wants."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, at this point, it is a fait accompli that the politically correct left is winning. That doesn't mean there's going to be a fundamental economic revolution. This is where Trump can get back his mojo. If Trump continues to be able to create jobs and stimulate the economy so wages go up, this other stuff isn't going to matter so much. And then you'll see the far left and the left recede in power. But right now, as we just talked about with the statues, the momentum is on their side because their opposition is afraid. They're afraid.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if you stick up for Trump then you're a Nazi. If you call out Color of Change you hate blacks. You know, this demonization that Alinsky wrote about, Saul Alinsky, this is a reality. And people are afraid. I can tell... I'm not going to do it because it's not fair. But I can tell you commentators are scared to death on television. They're frightened out of their minds. And then you have the rest of them are in the pack. Whichever way the pack goes they go. All right. So it's concerning.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not at a crisis point now but it could be, it could get there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rich Fleischauer. Benton Harbor, Michigan.</p>
<p>"Recent Premium Member but longtime Factor fan. I don't remember all this hate before President Obama. In your opinion, what responsibility does he play?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not much. I thought that President Obama was a true believer who masked what he really wanted, which was a quasi-socialistic economic system and a withdrawal from any engagements abroad that were confrontational. That's what his two-pronged system was, and he masked it. But he wasn't, or isn't, a nasty guy in the sense that he's not a hater. I never ever saw that from him. And I was in his presence a fair amount.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Steve in Jerseyville, Illinois.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I think your assessment of how President Trump should have handled the issue regarding the KKK, Nazis, and white supremacists is correct, but I strongly believe that it needs to be clearly stated that the people on the right that Trump is referring to when he said there are good people on both sides of the issue."&nbsp;</p>
<p>The problem is there weren't any good people marching with the Nazis. And that's where that message got lost. You can't... the best thing I've said all week is when it comes to Nazis you condemn them and walk away, that's all. You don't have any other linkage. So if Trump had just condemned them and then three days later said, "you know what, people who don't want to see statues destroyed about our historical legacy, they're not all bad people." He could have done that separately. But you can't do it in conjunction with Nazis.&nbsp;</p>
<p>James Guglielmino. Burbank, California, where we'll be, Miller and I in December, James. No we're not in Burbank, we're in Anaheim. But that's just down the freeway.</p>
<p>"Bill, it's true George Washington Thomas Jefferson were slave owners. Slavery is condemned today as it should be. I believe we're all products of an era in which we live. So were Washington and Jefferson when having slaves was the unfortunate norm of the day for the well-to-do."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I get into this seriously in Killing England. All right. This is lucky for me almost that this talk about our Founding Fathers and how they behaved is in play because Killing England is all about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, and what they were really like.</p>
<p>And we take you into their slave situations and then you can make your judgment about them. Whether they were basically good men or not. But believe me, the left isn't going to stop at Robert E. Lee. They're going to go after Jefferson and Washington. It's coming. But when you read Killing England, the totality of their lives, and that's what we give you, you're going to be very surprised. And I think that information will become very useful in this day and age.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Donald McKeough. Coral Springs, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I mostly agree with you. But Hideki Tojo compared to Robert E. Lee or any southern commander? Really, is that what you wanted to say? Atrocities committed by the Japanese in the Pacific were truly beyond the pale. With few exceptions on both sides of the Civil War, it was an honorable war."&nbsp;</p>
<p>No. It wasn't. It wasn't. It was a brutal war with atrocities all over the place. I mean, when you have a guy like Sherman going through the south, scorched-Earth burning and killing civilians, come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Andersonville, the Confederate prison, that was as bad as any Japanese prison. It was not an honorable war. And I'll prove it. Look at this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It says, quote, "The general commanding takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them. The Home Guards are required to come in at once. and deliver up their arms. Those who failed to do so will be regarded as enemies of the government and treated accordingly. Those who comply will be treated as noncombatants and private citizens. Private citizens who seek opportunity to ambush our soldiers, commonly known as bushwhackers, will be regarded as outlaws and orders will be issued to shoot them wherever found. If any of our men are fired on while passing through the country, I will lay waste the entire surrounding neighborhood."&nbsp;</p>
<p>General J.H. Morgan. All right. One more time, I'm just going to show you. This is the actual proclamation from the general. Not a reproduction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This war, the Civil War, was as brutal as it comes. Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, ok, you need it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What else do I have here?&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was a good letter, by the way, Donald. I thank you for writing that letter.</p>
<p>Grace Smith. Smithton, Illinois.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"In your opinion, do U.S. citizens who hold extremely hateful views have the same constitutional legal rights as those who do not?"</p>
<p>Yes, but they can't break the law. There is such a thing as a conspiracy to commit harm. They can't break the law but if they're just a loon they have constitutional rights.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I guess that's me. Big Bad Bill. Look, Elizabeth, I'm happy you're on board. It is hard to get the truth from the American media.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>You know, you've got to be careful, Robert. I am. You've got to be very careful. There are people who will hurt you.</p>
<p>And finally, Laura on the message board, Clinton, New York.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>But today we have so much serious news I want to get to. I'm going to be very precise today because this thing is rapidly getting out of control - this Trump Charlottesville thing. Now I did write another column for The Hill. It is posted under the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Another-All-Out-Assault-on-President-Trump/382615088030111543.html" target="_blank">Message of the Day</a> on BillOReilly.com. You can read it on either or. It is about how the Trump Charlottesville situation is being presented to you by the mass media. And you know it's not a bash column. It's a fact, fact, fact, fact. And that's what I want to do today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>First of all the memorial service for 32-year-old Heather Heyer was held today in Charlottesville. She was run down by this guy- this neo-Nazi sympathizer, according to all the people in his Ohio town that's what he was - James Fields, who probably never see the light of day. And I felt terrible for the Heyer family because a 32-year-old woman working at a law firm as an assistant there, by all accounts a very generous kind woman -she wants to make her voice heard that she doesn't like racism, she doesn't like Nazi -certainly she wasn't any crazy person. And she just was in the wrong place when this guy Fields allegedly drove his car into a crowd and killed her. No there's no difference between James Fields and the ISIS people who do this.</p>
<p>There's no difference. They're the same. They want to hurt people with whom they disagree. And if they're going to use a car they want to kill 'em and they succeeded in killing Heather Heyer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it was a horrible thing to watch. You know her mom and all of this. Can you imagine if it was your daughter or your sister or your wife? I mean it's beyond comprehension the evil that that we see in this country and in this world it really is beyond comprehension.</p>
<p>Now in addition to that terrible situation you have now the unbelievable politicization of this this battle. All right.</p>
<p>And I want to make a couple of points I made these in the column but I want to make them verbally because they're stronger.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number one whenever Nazis are involved in anything that's the end of the discussion. You can't bring anything in to mitigate Nazis. You can't put Nazis in perspective. You just have to condemn the crew and walk away. That's the big mistake that Donald Trump made and I know he didn't do it on purpose. I mean Trump, I've known over 30 years not a racist he's not a Nazi, not a fascist. All of this is made up by his political opponents but he doesn't think through what his words will mean to his opposition. And he has to think that through.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So again when you're discussing Nazis that's the end, there can't be anything else you can attach anything to it. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's point number one. Point number two, the Bushes released a statement, Bush the elder and Bush the Younger. And I'm going to read you the statement because it's very ironic.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They say: "America always reject racial bigotry anti-Semitism and hate in all forms. As we pray for Charlottesville we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence. We are all created equal endowed by our creator with inalienable rights. We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok. He's quoting Thomas Jefferson - the Bushes are quoting Thomas Jefferson. Well here's the irony of it. They're coming for Thomas Jefferson - the far-left fascists are coming for Thomas Jefferson because he was a slave holder. And they're going to come for Washington, they're going to come for everyone who had anything to do with slavery.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There was a defacement at the Lincoln Memorial. Now Lincoln had no slaves and Lincoln was very, very sympathetic to freeing slaves. Right. And that's what got him killed. John Wilkes Booth was a fanatical pro-slavery person.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anyway, big defacement on the Lincoln Memorial so these people on the left ... and again you can't equate them in any way shape or form with Nazis. You can't do that. It's a separate thing. All right. They're not going to stop with Trump or with Robert E. Lee statue. They're coming for everybody. They want to shut up opposition. They want to hurt their opposition and that's who they are.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here's the proof of this. There are a number things on the internet - and I don't usually bother with the internet sites because they are vile and disgusting and I don't want to live my life reading this stuff - but I did have a researcher look. There's a number of things from the far left. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>First is from the Revolutionary Abolition Movement. They've issued a statement on Charlottesville. Here's a statement from that Revolutionary Abolition Movement far left. "Our fighters showed daring and willingness to risk their own safety for the sake of others and we hold them in the highest regard. Due to their fortitude and unwavering determination the anti-fascists held their ground and succeeded in stopping the rally." All right so their fighters. They admit it. OK.</p>
<p>Quote number two. "The American state is collapsing as capitalism remains mired in crisis it's one solid position within the global order is crumbling with ever widening cracks in the state's Foundation. Those who reap the benefits of white supremacy society and American imperialism are grasping at any chance to maintain their position in the hierarchy it legitimates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you get the picture. This far-left crew - again you can't equate them to the Nazis - they stand alone - want to destroy this country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from Crime Inc. or something like that. This is an article;. Again far left deal.</p>
<p>Quote. "It's essential to build fighting formations capable of facing down far right violence. Fascist love to portray themselves as victims in order to claim the right to do violence to others. Their entire narrative is built around the contradiction that they are simultaneously master race and underdog victorious and persecuted.</p>
<p>So they're calling for fighting formation. OK. Finally this is from the same crew.</p>
<p>"The police will not protect us. They murder over a thousand people every year in this country."&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is what this crew is saying.</p>
<p>"And infiltrate and attack our demonstrations when we stand up against alt right terror. We have to organize to defend ourselves."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's a violent call. All of this is violence. All of it. Now the reason I read it to you ... and again these are fringe, far left sewer, lowest level ... but so is the National Front, the Storm Front, and all these Nazi people. That it's the same crew just different sides OK.</p>
<p>But the reason I read you those quotes today is that you'll never hear that on any American news site ever.</p>
<p>Now the propaganda to eliminate - and that's the word - eliminate Donald Trump has reached a fever pitch. And the people who want Trump destroyed are using Saul Alinsky's radical playbook.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So now the thing is not only is Trump a white supremacist racist but anyone who voted for Trump or supports Trump is as well. The chief vile far-Left propagandists in this country now is Michael Moore. CNN of course had him on last night. Roll the tape.</p>
<p>SOUNDBITE.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>MICHAEL MOORE:</strong> I am certain that the 63 million people who voted for him actually, the vast, vast majority of them, loved that press conference.</p>
<p><strong>DON LEMON</strong>: well, not all Trump Supporters.</p>
<p><strong>MICHAEL MOORE</strong>: Not all. But the vast majority.</p>
<p><strong>DON LEMON</strong>: and they take offence to people calling them racist because they supported them. So how then &hellip;</p>
<p><strong>MICHAEL MOORE</strong>: Yes. but what are you? Yes if you hold down the woman while the rapist is raping here and you didn&rsquo;t rape her, are you a rapist? I mean let&rsquo;s just really, let&rsquo;s cut the BS and start speaking honesty.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So there you go. Moore is saying what the strategy is on the far left. Any one voting or supporting Donald Trump is a racist.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now that's marginalizing their opposition, demonizing, and trying to convince everyone that Trump is evil and so are his supporters.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let's bring in one of those reporters Monica Crowley is a columnist. She wrote a nice column in the New York Post on Saturday about Nikki Haley and foreign affairs. And an old colleague of mine.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, a couple of other stories I want to tell you about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>North Korea is the subject of a State Department report released this week and it says that North Korea is the worst persecutor of religious people in the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. So if you are a believer in any faith in North Korea you are subject to execution, torture, beatings, and arrests. All right. Just for being a believer. So that's a pretty interesting study when people figure well North Korea, you know, what's the big deal? That is a total totalitarian state communist but vicious.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And in a state of Oregon they have a governor named Kate Brown - very very far left. Now, Oregon, I lived there for a while - not too long. I worked for Channel 2 in Portland. It's dominated by Portland, which is the largest city in Multnomah County - all the suburbs around Portland. Nike is there. OK. The rest of the state, outside of Salem the state capital and the college towns, fairly traditional and conservative. But because most of the people are in the Portland area it's a very liberal state. So they elect this Kate Brown.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Ms. Brown has now signed a law called the Reproductive Health Equity Act. Which means if you're in the state of Oregon and you want an abortion five minutes before your set to give birth you can have one. No limitations. You don't have to have any reason at any time to abort the baby. All right.</p>
<p>Now remember science has proven on conception there's human DNA and babies are viable about halfway through the pregnancy.</p>
<p>So Governor Brown says I don't really care about that. If a woman, for whatever reason, wants to kill the fetus baby she can. Not only that but the state of Oregon will pay for it. They set aside money to fund abortions and even abortions for illegal alien women. Undocumented women, they will pay for those.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So when you look at what's happening in Texas, for example, where they're trying to make abortion harder, waiting periods, you've got to have a valid reason after a certain amount of weeks, that kind of thing. And then you look at Oregon where they say "we don't care." And by the way, I am a believer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If Kate Brown believes in any god at all, boy there's going to be quite a discussion upon her demise. Because this is life. I don't like to get into the... I don't like to tell people what to believe or anything like that, but scientifically it's life and to discard it for any reason at any time and then have people like me, if I still lived in Oregon I'd have to pay for it. That's just insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I expect this law to be challenged in the courts. I hope it will be. But it just tells you the unbelievable divide that's going on in America. Oregon, Texas. California, Alabama. It's really getting serious.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We've got some good mail today as always and I want to take some time answering it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Michael Stenkamp. St. Cloud, Florida, posts on the message board. And you can either do that or if you're a little shy you can get a private musing to me, Bill@BillOReilly.com. We're approaching 2,200,000 tweet followers. So that's @billoreilly and you might want to do that. We have some fun but we make some serious points too. Alright, here's what Michael says.</p>
<p>"Keep in mind, when you criticize Charlottesville for not reacting the way the New York police would have, the entire population is about the size of the NYPD (the entire population of Charlottesville.) They don't have the resources and do not deal with this stuff as much as New York does."</p>
<p>Everybody knows that, Michael. But look, the state of Virginia has resources. It's a big state and the governor could have and should've put authorities, state police, maybe the guard, whatever, into Charlottesville to separate the two crews. Come on. Everybody knew this was going to happen. And that poor woman is dead.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ed. East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>"Bill, your view on the statue nonsense was spot on. However, those who tear them down are committing a crime, must be arrested and sentence accordingly. Otherwise, chaos will continue and no doubt worsen."</p>
<p>I agree with that. My statue thing depends on the statue. Depends on the statue. Alright so you get, you get a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general, and I cited this yesterday, in New Orleans. He's the founder of the KKK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, you know, black people walking by that statue, you know. It would be like putting up a statue of Fidel Castro in Miami. So you've got to be temperate about this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Robert E. Lee is another matter. But bad guys are bad guys.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Paul. Tucson, Arizona.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I have to disagree with you about these statues. People just have to get over it. History is history and moving things that represent certain parts of history is wrong no matter what."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Paul, we have a gentleman's disagreement.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Pearl Harbor. You wouldn't put up a statue of Tojo, the Japanese military commander who ordered the attack. Even though we defeated Tojo and it's part of history that he did it, you wouldn't put that up. There's no statues of Hitler anywhere. You know, we defeated him. People should know we defeated Hitler and how we did it and Japan and how we did it. That's why I wrote Killing Patton and Killing the Rising Sun. But you don't need a statue. So, it's a case by case situation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Chris Morris. Canberra, Australia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Doesn't the practice of quoting unnamed sources allow the media to concoct any story or conspiracy theory and just put it out there as fact? Then they can justify their bias without having to prove anything. How can this be tolerated?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here in America, our press standards have collapsed. I don't know if it's the same in Australia. I know you have a very liberal media, Chris. But here, all standards have collapsed. So, anonymous sources can be used to attack anybody. Anybody. And the newspaper or whatever doesn't have to produce the source. And yeah, they can fabricate it. And yeah, that's been done. It's horrible.</p>
<p>I don't use unnamed anonymous sources in factual reporting. I mean, I might refer to something that somebody else did but I don't do it. It's sleazy, it's dishonest, and it's really hurting this country.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>OK. I mean, look. This is a new forum for me as well as a lot of the viewers. And we're going to be very straightforward in what we think is harming the country. That's our mission.</p>
<p>We think something is harming the country, we don't care whether it's Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal. We're going to point it out. That's what I do and that's why I've been successful for all this time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Greg Pearson. Maple Plan, Minnesota.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I first supported Ben Carson, then Ted Cruz, but I voted against Clinton more than Trump on Election Day. As the media attacks against Trump have escalated so has my support for the president. If the election were held now, my yard would be full of Trump signs."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think there's a backlash. I think so. I think the folks, if they pay attention, know the deck is stacked. But I think the president has to now step back and be more precise and deliberate when he goes after somebody.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Badinage, Word of the Day. I've got another Word of the Day, Badinage, that's back and forth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, Beck is a friend of mine. My friends don't have to agree with me and vice versa. He's very entertaining. Love having him on, love being on his radio show. All of that works for us. I know some of you, he tees you off because he's not a big Trump guy. But that's all right. You know, listen to the back and forth. It's always edifying.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>And finally it's the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here is Elvis and Nixon with Elvis's signature below.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And he says, call bank. Elvis needed a bank because he was making gazillions of dollars as probably the best concert entertainer ever.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think he's the best ever. Movies...eh. Although, he wasn't bad in the beginning. But they killed him with the clambake stuff and all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Very, very tragic death for Elvis Presley, kind of lost control of the process. 42-years-old. There are some people who die you remember where you were. I was in Lake Tahoe, Nevada when Elvis Presley died.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I remember watching the local news out of San Francisco on the story going "What a shame. You know, what a shame." You know, he was such a good entertainer and 42... you know, but he just, he lost himself with it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And it's hard to be famous. And particularly when you're Elvis Presley. It is. There's a lot of pressure, you can't trust a lot of people. A lot of people coming at you. But I always sympathize with the lad from Tupelo, Mississippi. Not an educated man, but boy, the gift that God gave him brought joy to a lot of people.</p>
<p>Thanks for being premium members. See you tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-16T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Intensifying Hate-Trump MovementBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Intensifying-Hate-Trump-Movement/584757783448717590.html2017-08-15T23:00:00Z2017-08-15T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday August 15, 2017.</p>
<p>A lot to tell you about today. Glenn Beck warming up in the bullpen. He's joining us by Skype. Wow I don't even know what that is. But he'll be here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I have my little Boston Red Sox shirt on doesn't mean I'm rooting for them, all you Yankee fans and Kansas City fans. I like the shirt. I know some people in the front office there, don't panic.</p>
<p>All right. So here's the theme of the day. Can Donald Trump overcome the hatred being directed toward him? Will he overcome it or will it consume him? Very interesting question. He comes back home last night about 9:00 to New York City Trump Tower. A few hundred hate-Trumpers are out there screaming at him. Everybody is going 'why? what's the beef?' He already did two statements in Charlottesville. But it's the same old thing. All right. "He's not our president." "We're not going to accept it." On and on. And that's what this is all about. All right. It&rsquo;s all about - and I told this to Trump ... we are going to try to pull that clip and play it for later this week ... the first interview I did with him - I said if you win they hate you so much. Just you. It's you. It's not your policies or anything like that. OK.</p>
<p>But now it's expanded because he has power. And you see the success of the hate-Trump movement because it's now enveloped all the media. If you are a pro Trump person you yourself are now in the target of destruction. So the few commentators left that are standing up for Donald Trump, Media Matters and these are people trying to destroy them - get them off the air, hurt them or hurt their families. They'll do anything. And again I've been telling you this but now in the next few weeks we're going to drop some bombs that will prove it. We're still getting our legal case together. But it is undeniable. So that not only Donald Trump the president the subject of hatred but anyone who may support his policies or him.</p>
<p>Now in Charlottesville. I hope you <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-Yes-many-sides-are-ripping-Charlottesville-America-apart/277603093322863431.html" target="_blank">read my column on it</a>. The initial column right after Trump gave his opening statement and then he amended the statement by saying yeah, the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are bad. And perhaps he should have said that in his opening remarks. The point he wanted to make was that there are a lot of fault in Charlottesville. And there was. I mean first of all the dopey Nazis. They didn't care about the Robert E. Lee statue. They just wanted to get attention and cause trouble. They brought weapons. And OK. The counter protesters- what are they protesting? What? The Nazis are bad? Come on.</p>
<p>So they show up and a lot of them bring in weapons and then you have the Charlottesville authorities who know that these two groups are going to clash and they don't do anything to stop it. You know barriers, iron barriers. That's how you separate people. Four or five rows thick. That's what they did in the Trump demonstrations last night. So these loons couldn't get close to the president. That's how you do it. Charlottesville didn't do any of that. The governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe didn't put the state police in there in any form did he? And they knew that this stuff was going to happen and the result is one person, a poor woman - 32 years old - dies. And two state troopers go down a chopper. Come on.</p>
<p>There's a lot of blame to go around a lot of places.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then Trump under heavy pressure does the second thing - the Nazis are bad KKK's bad. OK fine. Still hate-Trumpers on cable and in newspapers, they won't let up.</p>
<p>Now I'm just going to give you an example of how intense this is. I'm going to run a montage for about 45 seconds here. First one is Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post - hates Trump, hates conservatives. All right. Jimmy Fallon, trying to recapture some ratings magic, trying to get in the game again. Stephen Colbert. His ratings were in the dumper. He started to attack Trump. Now they're higher. Rachel Maddow - now the only reason that she's successful on cable is because she hates Trump and weaves these theories- unbelievable conspiracy stuff. And finally Jake Tapper who says he's a journalist but he's really not. He's an anti-Trump guy. Roll the tape.&nbsp;</p>
<p>SOUNDBITE.</p>
<p>((<strong>Eugene</strong> <strong>Robinson</strong> <strong>on MSNBC</strong>: Remember Donald Trump did not just receive the support of white supremists, he invited it. He welcomed it.</p>
<p>(EDIT)</p>
<p><strong>Jimmy Fallon:</strong> the fact that it took the president two days to come out and clearly denounce racists and white supremists is shameful. and I think he finally spoke out because people everywhere stood up and said something.</p>
<p>(EDIT)</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Colbert</strong>: I have seen angrier yelp reviews and they weren&rsquo;t afraid to use the word Nazi when describing how long their jalapeno poppers took.</p>
<p>(EDIT)</p>
<p><strong>Rachel Maddow</strong>: but we have never before had the persistent neo-Nazi and white separatist violent right in this country associate themselves so openly and so lovingly with a serving president.</p>
<p>(EDIT)</p>
<p><strong>Jake Tapper</strong>: why for the president does it seem easier to suggest U.S. intelligence operatives are behaving like Nazis then to call these actual Nazis Nazis?))&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. So Jake he did call Nazis Nazis. Are you satisfied? No you're not. You'll never be satisfied until he's out of office and that's the final thing. The goal of the hate-Trumpers is to get him out, overturn the election.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I don't think they are going to be successful. I don't think that's going to happen. But that's their goal and they're going to continue on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Final thing before we get to Glenn Beck there is an article in The Wall Street Journal today written by a woman named Jennifer Wright who is, I guess, a correspondent for Harper's Bazaar magazine. She says that if your spouse likes Trump you have to divorce him or her. OK I'm going to quote it. Ready.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I'm going to save you three years of therapy where you and your partner agree to disagree. If your partner is a Trump supporter and you're not just divorce them. You don't need to try to make it work with someone who thinks people as illegals.</p>
<p>I want to repeat that.</p>
<p>"You do not need to try it to make it work with someone who thinks of people as illegals.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So therefore if you call an undocumented person in this country illegally an illegal alien got to get a divorce. OK.</p>
<p>"This may not always be possible some people may not be financially or available to get a divorce but if you do have those means divorce your spouse. If you saddle yourself with someone who's fundamentally does not share your values, and at this point it seems fair to say people on different ends of the political spectrum have wildly different values, you're going to be unbelievably, achingly lonely. So just skip it. Get a divorce. It's clearly not ideal no one goes into a marriage planning a divorce but people get divorced for great many reasons. My partners view is morally repulsive to me is one of the best reasons to get divorced."</p>
<p>Now you see. My mother and father split in 1960 over Nixon Kennedy. My mother voted for Kennedy and my father voted for Nixon. And they laughed about it - so we will cancel each other out. Everything was polite. I learned a lot as a little dopey kid listening to them back and forth but there was always great affection or respect for the other point of view. Not any longer. If you call somebody illegal alien get up there you go. You got to be kicked out of the country yourself.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right I was bringing Glenn Beck Skype. He's on Skype everyone. I don't even know what Skype means.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))</p>
<p>I'm glad that everybody will see you on Friday on the Glenn Beck radio program.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get into some stats for you about terrorism. These are from the Cato Institute. OK. Now they studied terrorism the United States from 1992 to 2017. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So in those years 15 years 3,350 people have been killed in the United States through terrorist.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ninety two percent were killed by Islamic terrorists. Remember Barack Obama would not say the word Islamic terrorists and the media didn't care. But when Trump didn't say the words Nazis, KKK oooo!&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. The second deadliest terror group are right wing terrorist - far right wing. I mean they account for 228 murders. Seven percent of all the deaths.</p>
<p>Left wing terrorists killed 19 people. All right. So that's an infinitesimal number then 19. However keep in mind that these are direct murders not indirect. I would submit that the police killed in Dallas, in Louisiana, here in New York City were killed because black lives matter and other radical groups incited the criminals and they weren't described as terrorists. They were described as criminals. So that didn't come into the study.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the point is that right wing nationalists, white supremacists, Nazis, KKK ... infinitesimal part of our population ... but they are dangerous. Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City militia guy. All right. But the odds of being killed by a far-right terrorist are one in 33 million OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The odds of being killed by Islamic terrorist one in two million.</p>
<p>There you go.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's talk about the statues now because this is in my wheel house. You saw the pictures in Durham where a communist group attacked a statue of a fallen Confederate soldier. Right. OK. The Police in Durham, North Carolina didn't stop it. They let it go. In fact the police themselves videoed it. So they let vandalism take place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Shame on you police. The police that were there in Durham, North Carolina. Shame on you.</p>
<p>So across the country, sixty symbols of the Confederacy in statue form have been removed. About 350 remain. Most of them in the south, obviously.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What should happen?&nbsp;</p>
<p>It depends on where the symbol is and in what context. For example, if you're on a battlefield, Civil War battlefield, there's no problem in having Confederate statues there of the participants of the battle. Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Appomattox, whatever it may be. That's contextual.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you just have a statue in a place like New Orleans, where there is one of Nathan Bedford Forrest, veteran general, but founder of the Ku Klux Klan, I think that can be moved to a museum. You know, look, if I'm a black man or woman and I have to walk by a statue of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan every day, that's not making me feel good.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I wouldn't want to see a statue of Oliver Cromwell every day. For those of you who don't know, he was the British General, Lord, Ruler, went over and brutalized the Irish. I don't want to see that every day. Now there is one in London of Cromwell, but you get my point.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Nathan Bedford Forrest, that thing should be removed. Robert E. Lee, brave man, good general, fought for his state, put his state over his country. Knew it, admitted it. After the war was a positive force for reconciliation, ran Washington and Lee College. What are they going to do, change the name of Washington and Lee college now?</p>
<p>Alright Yale, you all know, John Calhoun, they had a house at Yale named after him. Now they're scrubbing that. Calhoun was a big Yale grad and a big donor. But Yale himself, who the college is named after, was a slaveholder. So what, Yale goes?&nbsp;</p>
<p>You've got to put everything into context here. Washington held slaves. Jefferson held slaves. We write about that extensively in Killing England, which will be out in a month. But their consciences, Washington, Jefferson, and all the other slaveholders, were formed in a different way than our consciences are formed now. Not an excuse.</p>
<p>John Quincy Adams knew slavery was abhorrent and so did millions of early Americans. So it's not an excuse. But do we demonize people who really helped this country because of mistakes that they made? No.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Robert E. Lee statue, you know, again, if it's in the middle of a town, there's no historical context, I'd move it. But you don't destroy it. That's part of history. You don't glorify people like Forrest who oppressed other people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You can make an argument that Robert E. Lee's skills we're used to the continuing oppression of blacks. You can make that argument. You can make it. But I think that reasonable people can come to fair conclusions about statues.&nbsp;</p>
<p>North Korea, as we said to Beck, the little jerk over there, "I'm not going to bomb Guam now, maybe later..."</p>
<p>I told you in the beginning of this North Korea thing, this is all bluster. You know, Trump came out and said, "look, you attack us or any of our allies, you're vapor." I don't have a problem with it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. The mail, right? No, no, no we have one more thing.</p>
<p>Teddy Roosevelt.</p>
<p>Trying to get that out of the light, I don't think I can. Teddy Roosevelt. This is a letter that he wrote in 1916 when Americans were volunteering for World War I to fight on the side of either Germany or France or whatever. USA was not in the war at the time. Here's what Teddy says:&nbsp;</p>
<p>"This man feels it is his business to go over to fight for France because it is France and not the United States which has a claim on him." He's talking about an American who's going to volunteer for France. "This is exactly the attitude taken by the professional German-Americans to whom I object. And we are not going to have any real Americanism in this country until we create an effective popular opinion which will insist that neither the man described from French, the man descended from English, or the man descended from German ancestry has any business to consider loyalty to any country except the United States."&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Teddy, way back in 1916, is basically saying "knock it off with the hyphens."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I Was lucky to find that letter.</p>
<p>Mail. Robert. Puerto Rico.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"They say if you destroy or ignore history you're doomed to repeat it. I think General Lee is as much a part of history as Grant or Sherman. We're doing a great disservice to our younger generation by not allowing them to see all sides of the story."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well it's what they did in the Soviet Union, that's why these communist people want that. They whitewash their horrible history. Germany does the same thing, you know, with the third reich.&nbsp;</p>
<p>David. Carmichael, California. These are all message boards, by the way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, you really nailed it with this podcast. After all these years I've never once ever seen any condemnation by the left-wing media or grievance race hustlers on Louis Farrakhan or Black Lives Matter, racism, and hatred of things white."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yeah, they don't. They won't. It's as simple as that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sandra. Carlsbad, California. Nice town. Got to get that plan out of there though.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"For eight years President Obama never used the term Islamic terrorism (as I mentioned) and the media was fine with it." Absolutely, Sandra. "Now because President Trump didn't utter the words naming each group he is being raked over the coals. I thought his statement over the weekend was very strong. He denounced the violence and hatred."&nbsp;</p>
<p>John. Yuma, Arizona.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"The point about New York City cops saying the disaster would not have happened in NYC because they would have barricaded the two groups says it all. I think the Democratic hate-Trump governor of Virginia didn't even consider steps to prevent anything like this. He should have. Why didn't he? And all he's doing now is blaming Trump."&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, McAuliffe, I don't have any problem with McAuliffe on the general basis. He's the Clinton's best pal. All of that. But he should have had big state trooper presence in there.</p>
<p>If you want to reach me.... if you don't want to post on the message boards, you might be a little shy or something like that, Bill@BillOReilly.com. Here we go on those.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Caridad Lew. Yorba Linda, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, your voice is more important today than ever. Everything in the news is based on speculation, total hatred for our president. I find it almost impossible to find objective news based on facts. Thank you for continuing great work. Excited to check out your new website and your improvements to the podcast."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Great to mention all that, Caridad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The website, if you're watching on a mainframe computer you'll see all the improvements. The machines, the handhelds will come soon. I don't know why it takes that but they're doing it and that's all I care about.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Loriann Vaccola.</p>
<p>"When I'm on social media and see the double standard and the hate for Trump in the media and people in general, I feel like someone's strangling me. When I listen to your podcast I instantly calm down."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Good, Loriann, that's what we're here for. We want to de-intensify the craziness and the madness, tell you the facts, tell you the truth based on the facts. You don't have to agree with me. I mean, I have a letter here from somebody I'll read in a minute who's daughter, you know, insults me...hang around for this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Annelore Haines.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"How is it possible that a few hundred white supremacists are able to recruit like minded people from other states such as Ohio to come down to Virginia to take part in violence?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because of the Internet. Come on. You know that. The loons can convene. Not just supremacists or whatever, but any pedophiles, disgusting people now have a forum where they can meet other disgusting people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kristy Bowers. Austin, Texas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"When did white supremacists become white nationalists?"</p>
<p>Look, it's all about labeling and branding people. Alright. Nationalism is country first. So white nationalism would be a white country first or whatever. I'm not big on that but that's what's going on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gordon Lincoln in California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"We enjoy the lively debates you have on. There are two sides to every topic. Diverse points of view are needed to understand the broader picture."</p>
<p>Look, I know. There were a couple of letters complaining about we have guests and they don't like the guest's opinion. We're going to have a really good mix. It's not going to be like every segment there's a guest that I did on TV. It's going to be mostly my analysis and and then talking to you as I am now. But we are going to bring in guests because they're fun. We'll have some fun. Got to break it up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally here is the letter I wanted to read to you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Christopher Powell. Baltimore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Finished Old School in a week and ordered some more books from your reading list. I also ordered your fiction book, Those Who Trespass. I told my snowflake daughter that she might like it. She replied to me, anything Bill O'Reilly says is pure fiction."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well I hope that girl is in the basement, Christopher. Look, Christopher. I'm serious about this. If your daughter is old enough, 18 or over, and she said that, I will put her on this podcast. So you go to your daughter, you tell her O'Reilly said he wants to invite you on to back that comment up. I'll be pleased to do that. Alright. So snowflakes are snowflakes but if they're going to mouth off I'll give her the forum.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Thank you for being Premium Members. We'll see you again tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-15T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Tension in Charlottesville and Trump's ResponseBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Tension-in-Charlottesville-and-Trumps-Response/133731109873727046.html2017-08-14T23:00:00Z2017-08-14T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members welcome to the No Spin News audio only today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I had to attend a funeral this morning say a few words about a college professor of mine at Marist way back in the early 70s and I stayed in touch with him. He's a good man and loyalty is important friendships important to me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm out here on the east end of Long Island. And tomorrow we will resume our video from the home office and we are working on the studio situation. We're taking all of your suggestions. And in September we'll have some news on that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But we have big news on BillOReilly.com tomorrow. We have a brand-new look and what we're doing here is turning it from a general website into a news site. So we're going to have a big newsy look and you'll be able to see it tomorrow we hope. We have the technical geniuses working on it. And again you tell us what you like and don't like and we'll tweak it because we're all in this together. And BillOReilly.com Premium Membership is skyrocketing. We want everybody's input. You can use the message boards or Bill at BillOReilly.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So let's get into this Trump situation and it's very very interesting because a number of things going on here that are important to America.</p>
<p>Number one the press hates Donald Trump. That's number one. All right. So from there all of the controversies begin.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not to say the president doesn't help them along. He does. But the press hates Trump and wants him out. All right. And that is beyond a reasonable doubt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I wrote a <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-Yes-many-sides-are-ripping-Charlottesville-America-apart/277603093322863431.html">column today for The Hill</a>. I hope you've read it because we did post it on BillOReilly.com under the Message of the Day. I don't want to be redundant here. And I will answer some specific questions in the mail segment. But we've got Bernie Goldberg hanging on and he did write a column as well. So we want to talk about that.</p>
<p>So you know the nuts and bolts of it is real quickly. A neo-Nazi crew - white supremacists - got a court order to allow them to march in Charlottesville, Virginia because that town is taking down a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. But the real reason the far right, white supremacy, whatever you want to call them, wanted to do this wasn't anything to do with Robert E. Lee or the legacy of America. It had to do with bringing attention to them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's what they want because they don't get any and they don't get any attention because there are only a very few of them. It's a handful, a couple of hundred of them, showed up in Charlottesville. They couldn't even fill out that little park. But anywhere they go you're going to have the crazy left follow them because both sides are looking for confrontation and they got it. They got it.</p>
<p>They should never have got it. But the police in Charlottesville are so inefficient that they couldn't figure out a way to keep the two crews apart. And then you have this crazy kid who drives the car in and kills this innocent 32-year-old woman. And I mean mayhem but you're always going to have mayhem when you have extremist groups always.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's why they're extremists. So the fascist group, the racist group, they're extremists - not all the counter demonstrators were extremists. But enough of them more to cause violence and we have seen this pattern. AntiFa they call them, the anti-fascist movement, and they feel like they have a right to come in and attack police destroy stores set things on fire. It&rsquo;s what they do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Enter President Trump who is confronted with this very horrendous situation and says we condemn violence on all sides. OK. Now anybody else - if Barack Obama had said it wouldn&rsquo;t have been a problem, right? If Obama had said 'hey, this is wrong, extremism is wrong, all these violent groups should cease' nobody would have said a word. But the far left and the some in the media believe that Trump is a racist. That's what they believe.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, Maxine Waters, all of these kooks. And I mean this woman is deranged. This Congresswoman Maxine Waters, she is deranged. They believe that Trump is a Nazi and anything to do with white power or anything like that they're going to try to have him be identified with it. That being said - and I hate to use that phrase because it has now become a clich&eacute; - my column deals with what President Trump should have said. Because when you are dealing as the nation's leader with situations like this you've got to be very specific.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Very specific changes: you can't just go all sides or throw a blanket over it or make a moral equivalency. You can't do that. You have got to single out what the problem is. Define it and then say who's the cause of the problem. Obviously the cause of this problem was the white supremacist groups who showed up in the first place to demonstrate. They knew that these AntiFa people were going to show because they brought weapons. Many of them brought weapons. They knew.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they - and I can't read their minds - but I don't think they're disappointed that there was violence. I don't know. I mean you've got a woman dead and the AntiFa people brought weapons to. What does that tell you?&nbsp;</p>
<p>And again I mean New York City is the best in the United States at controlling these demonstrations. And a couple of cops I was talking to today said that that never would have happened in New York City. They would have had iron barricades between the two crews that were manned by police. And you could have brought the state police in. McAuliffe should have done that -the governor - and kept them apart. And why they didn't do that is just beyond belief.</p>
<p>So anyway, when this unfolds then you get the cable talking heads and the internet people and it's just on and on and on and on. If you read it it's disgusting, how the media and these phony hypocritical talking heads described what was happening as far as Mr. Trump is concerned.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm going to give you one example. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City is perhaps the most incompetent mayor in the world. He isn't a Communist. But he's close. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now he stood by and said nothing when Black Lives Matter walked over the Brooklyn Bridge chanting 'pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon', holding anti-police signs. I will submit to you that you can make a case that the police officers who were assassinated in Dallas, Louisiana, and to New York City can be tied into this radical rhetoric that the police are killing black people. I'll submit you can make a strong case for that.</p>
<p>Now de Blasio did not say a word of condemnation about 'pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon'. In fact his own police force wherever he goes turns their collective back on him. Not all of them but a lot of them. He's hated among the 40,000 NYPD core. Here's what de Blasio said. Keeping all that in mind about Trump's statement on Charlottesville.</p>
<p>(BILL DE BLASIO: The president of the United States needs to do more. President Trump needs to speak out. He needs to say this was an act of domestic terror. He needs to condemn the white supremacist movement clearly. It&rsquo;s not hard to do. He needs to recognize what a danger this right wing white supremist movement is to our country)&nbsp;</p>
<p>He needs to recognize what a danger this right wing white supremacy movement is to our country. Mayor de Blasio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK how many of these people are there? How many there are? I mean do you see any in your town? None in my town. But Black Lives Matter and their sympathizers, they got to outnumber the white supremacists 10 to one. They have to. They are all over the place. Every time you turn around they're showing up. But the danger to our country is the white supremacist movement? And that you do a search on Mayor de Blasio and the jihad go ahead. See how dangerous he thinks that is. And this is just this one guy, de Blasio. He represents that far left, they're all saying this, all right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I'm using de Blasio because A: I think he's an incompetent fool. And B: because he's so blatant, such a hypocrite, that it's the perfect example.</p>
<p>All right summing up. President Trump made a mistake and again I don't know who's advising him. I don't know why his mistakes continue about this kind of stuff in not being specific about his condemnation. Today he came back out, he had to come back out, and was specific in naming the KKK, neo-Nazis, whatever. He should've done that yesterday. Because that's true. And if he wanted then, after that, to bring in the AntiFa then he could have done that. But he has to do it specifically as well. Make the same case that I made that it's very possible this anti-police rhetoric led to the deaths of the officers in Dallas, Louisiana, and Brooklyn. It's very possible because in both cases the killers had that stuff on their computers. All three cases OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's bring in Bernie Goldberg who wrote a <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Why-Is-Donald-Trump-Tougher-on-Fake-News-than-Real-Bigots/-899595501273668605.html">column on BernardGoldberg.com</a>. It is a very fine web site.</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bernie Goldberg. Everybody check him out on BernardGoldberg.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Couple of other things of interest you should know about. President Trump has declared a national emergency on opioid abuse. What this does is it gives the federal government the right to funnel money into certain things to fight this. So there's a drug that will overcome an overdose. So maybe the federal government will buy that drug and distribute it to cities and towns across the country. That kind of thing. So it's not just symbolic.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was a good move because, you know, there are 100 Americans every day dying of drug overdoses. And our society is not condemning drug use at all.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A study from the American Medical Association says that alcoholism - obviously on the same track as drug addiction - rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s.&nbsp;</p>
<p>One in eight Americans are now classified as alcoholics. Thirteen percent of the population. That is amazing. 88,000 people a year die of alcohol related causes. My grandfather died of cirrhosis of the liver. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So in addition to the opioid drug addiction you've got a growing alcoholism problem.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now we discussed on this broadcast - and we'll do more of it - why this is happening. But if you have to boil it all down it comes down to immediate gratification. You've got a problem you numb yourself. You don't like your life, you live in the zone of alcohol or drugs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Two polls out today Rasmussen and Zogby analytics, minor polls, have President Trump's approval rating at forty five percent. Much higher than CBS, CNN, and all of that. Again, I don't know how they do it. I don't know. But he's at 45 percent.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And among independents Trump's numbers have improved in these polls seven points in the last month. And disapproval fifty percent ... 50 percent disapprove, 45 approve. If that poll is true - and that's a big if - it has to do with the economy. The economy is getting better, people are getting more confident in their ability to get a job make some money as the job market gets tighter. Salaries have to go up. So that's what I think you're seeing if indeed Donald Trump's approval rating is at 45 percent job approval.</p>
<p>I've always said that President Trump will rise and fall based on the economy and that's why he kicked off his remarks today with the improving economic situation because he knew he had a big audience tuning in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get to the mail. Again, Bill at BillOReilly.com or you can post on the BillOReilly.com message boards.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from Judith Callahan who lives in Henderson, Nevada, outside of Vegas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill can you please tell us what the march in Charlotte was about. I know we can depend on you.</p>
<p>It is about, as we said earlier, protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, the Confederate general. But it was really about getting attention for these far-right people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from Brad Alexander, Marysville, Washington.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill you rightly condemned extremism on both sides but realistically the idiot white supremacists overall are an extremely small group."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Right Brad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"AntiFa is in every major city and university across America crashing peaceful rallies, scheduled speakers, and college campuses and labeling every right-wing group or President Trump supporter Alt-right or Nazis and inciting violence. Mainstream media praises them."</p>
<p>You know I don't know about praises them but they certainly condone it, they condone it.</p>
<p>Timothy Lockes, Lee, Alabama.</p>
<p>"Mr. O'Reilly can you find out why the Charlottesville city officials let an unregistered counter-protest happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because they didn't have any right to stop it. You know once the white supremacist got the OK from the court then basically the town of Charlottesville had to deal not only with the rally but the counter-rally. But certainly there are ways to keep the two apart. And they did not do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Laura Paris, Marietta, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Trump spoke eloquently about the violence Charlottesville, Va. Regardless those who hate him are going to find fault no matter what."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's the key point Laura. The key point. There is not honest debate anymore in America.</p>
<p>Alan Berling, Rio Vista, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill we are more than a little concerned with the direction the No Spin News podcast seems to be going. It started out with the no nonsense mostly unbiased analysis of the biggest news stories of day - something that no one else offers. Lately it seems you are drifting towards a debate show with progressive glee-loony people. A paid CNN contributor denying his network has an anti-Trump agenda. We deserve better.</p>
<p>Ok that was Smerconish. He didn't really deny it. He kind of dodged it. And I see your point. I could do straight commentary and not have Bernie Goldberg on or not have the other people on. But I think in certain situations a robust debate is educational. So what we're going to do is we'll do the whole show this way. Most of it is my commentary. But I think at times we want to hear an opposing opinion to see how strong the argument is. And I like to hear all your opinions on that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dolores is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I'm with you on the machines. Our youth are becoming zombies in the Walking Dead. They're addicted and the machines are controlling them. It needs to stop. Great new podcast.&nbsp;</p>
<p>See this is the upside. The podcast on the machines is the upside, Dolores. But you're right when you say it needs to stop. It's not going to stop. That addiction is out there. And parents have to control it and it's a losing battle in many cases.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mark Elliot, Tigard, Oregon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill love the podcast and all your books. Here's an observation. Isn't it crazy that baby boomers basically raised the millennials into what they are today? Do you have any words of wisdom on the issue?"</p>
<p>Yes baby boomers are divided into two groups. Baby boomers are the Americans born after World War II. I think it's 1945 to around 1960, in that range. Two groups. One group that bought into the sex, drugs, rock n roll, radical 60s and stayed that way. And the other group that is more traditional. The traditional people raise their kids in a traditional way. The boomers that went into the ponytails and you know they never got out of the 60s. They were much more permissive for the millennial children. I hope that resonates a little bit.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jack.</p>
<p>"Reading Civil War Legends and Lies. I can't believe David Fisher was able to pack so much detail about the many battles, strategies, victories, defeats, heroics, and failures on both sides. The section on Stonewall Jackson was both enlightening and sad."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sure. Stonewall Jackson. Excellent military commander on the wrong side of course. And how he met his demise is amazing. If you buy a copy you get a Legends and Lies T-shirt free.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally Evelyn Mars, Brick, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I've read all your Killing books. Love them all. Killing the Rising Sun is my favorite. I preordered your new book Killing England but my summer was left without a Killing book. Can you publish and write faster?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>Evelyn we can't. I have a lot of product out right now. The Day the World went Nuclear is the kid's book - but adults can enjoy it too - of Killing the Rising Sun. Legends and Lies the Civil War we just mentioned. Old School: Life in the Sane Lane is out. But the killing books are very, very research heavy. We can only do one a year. We are working on the one for 2018, September 2018, now. And if you preorder Killing England you'll get it first. It's out September 19th and you get 50 percent off any of the other Killing books. A great deal.</p>
<p>So tomorrow once again we will be back. You'll see my face back in the studio Wednesday. Thursday same thing. We're working on the big deal coming in September and we have a brand-new website design which you will see tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks for being Premium Members. We'll talk again on Tuesday.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-14T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Dangers of the "Machines" and the Morality of Nuclear WarBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Dangers-of-the-Machines-and-the-Morality-of-Nuclear-War/-751683537210421060.html2017-08-10T23:00:00Z2017-08-10T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News. We're back in the home office after our studio exposition yesterday. If you haven't seen it I hope you will watch it. Now it's open everybody in the world.</p>
<p>We are going to take some of your suggestions about the prototype that we did yesterday in the studio. We haven't decided exactly how this is going to come down yet but it will be decided in the next few weeks. I'm going to read your mail about it. But it was very helpful. Very, very helpful. You guys should be TV producers. So all of that is going well. But for the time being we've got me in the home office here in my little T-shirt.</p>
<p>You know I never buy logos like that. These are all gifts, these shirts that I like. It's ok, it's a nice shirt. And that's why I'm wearing it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let's get into some pretty interesting topics today for the No Spin News. We have Pastor Robert Jeffress on the phone. He's coming up shortly. And he made some provocative comments about North Korea and Donald Trump. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We're going to begin with the Talking Points Memo and this is what we need to change in America. Today in The Wall Street Journal this article was written. It&rsquo;s a good article by F. H. Buckley - how Trump won in Two Dimensions. But it's more than a look back at the election, it's about what we have to change in America to strengthen our society and to make life better for all of us.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm going to read from Professor Buckley's article. He's analyzing why Trump beat Hillary and he says quote, "The Democrats gave the back of their hand to Catholic voters. The principal bloc of swing voters in America. Democrats of the past would have been horrified to learn that their party makes faithful Catholics feel unwanted. That's what they thought Republicans did. But Mr. Trump courted white Catholics and they provided him with winning margins in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. Those three states determine the outcome of the election. The sweet spot in American politics right now is economic liberals and social conservatives."&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is fascinating.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The professor goes on quote:&nbsp;</p>
<p>"It's the place where presidential elections are won and the winner is usually going to be the candidate who won't touch Social Security and who promises to nominate Supreme Court justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia. In other words, Donald Trump."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK now here's the end of the article.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"The Democrats will bet on the triumph of their socially liberal ideas force fed to students at our universities and preached by most media outlets. They assume that the arc of history to which President Obama is so frequently appealed bends only their way and that all history moves in their direction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that's absolutely true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the fundamental thing we have to change in America is the hatred - on both sides - the political hatred. And the only way that changes, the media is not going to change it because the media makes money from it. The media makes money from hatred. But our elected officials in Congress have got to basically say to the American people we don't hate each other and we're trying to craft the best legislation for you. So Senator Schumer you can't be threatening people like Senator Manchin from West Virginia with a primary race and taking away all Democratic funding. You can't be threatening your own people if they vote their conscience. All right. And on the other side Mitch McConnell you've got to basically tell your party why things like the health care reform are needed for all Americans and sort of break down that ideology.</p>
<p>So the political hatred has got to stop. All right. It's number one.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number two the social quality of life decline in America is unbelievable. Now we have people on the far left saying that if you believe abortion is wrong, that if you believe the taking of a human life without a self-defense component is wrong, then you're the devil. I have a letter and I'm going to show it to you shortly. Not today. By Ronald Reagan explaining his stance on abortion - he opposed abortion. He changed. OK. But now if you are against abortion - surely a conscious dictated decision - now the far left says "you are oppressing women, you hate women". That has got to stop.</p>
<p>All right. And that's the most vivid example I can give you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And on the other side if you hate gays, if you hate someone because they're a homosexual, that's got to stop. It's got to stop.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because this kind of stuff is eroding our social quality of life.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you believe that in a libertarian society everybody should be allowed to be intoxicated all day long. There should be no sanctions against that at all. Then you are basically promoting anarchy and danger especially to children. So we need to start thinking about our quality of life and these insane social policies that are being driven primarily on the far left. Now there is some far-right intrusion but not nearly what it is on the far left.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The fourth thing we have to do we have to change is this growing addiction to the machines.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean if you spend all your time on the machines - number one you're not learning very much. I mean even though you can go to Google and figure out who the president of Romania is. All right. I seed you that. But you're not participating in life. This machine is all right, it is useful. But you can't be on it all the time. OK you can't be falling in love with another individual on the machine. You gotta meet them. You've got to go out and take a walk once in a while on the beach and admire the world. It can't be machine, machine, machine, machine, machine. Already that has fundamentally changed all communications. People under 40 don't watch television anymore. They don't watch the news. They get it on this machine from people they don't even know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are no standards on the machine. These websites can say and do whatever they want. And if they're sue, they're sued. I mean but that takes five years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we have to raise the debate about these machines starting now to take over people's minds. And they do. Look at all these young people - its constant. You can't even have a conversation at dinner. I mean I ban it. I'm a fascist. I ban it all. They can't do it. All right. But I go to a restaurant and there they are and they don't even talk to one another, the parents and the kids or the kids to the kids.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I force them to go to the beach, to go to the ocean, to go to the pool. I mean that's me. But that philosophy is like a babysitter now for a lot of parents; here take the machine from the time they're three. They shut up because they are on a machine. They don't watch TV, don't listen to the radio, don't read a newspaper, don't read a book. To get the urchins to read a book you gotta bang them on the head with it. This is so dangerous and happening all over the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally the aversion of interacting with others. That's what this does. All right interacting with other human beings is the key to a successful life. One on one, or in a group, or whatever appreciating other people. Appreciating them for their wit, their intelligence, for their loyalty, for their good qualities.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean you've got to select. There's a lot of evil people out there. But now it's me and the machine against the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So these are things that America that we have to change and it all starts with the political hatred and then it goes down to the to the awareness of other human beings. And you've got to help people if you can help them. Not run away and live in the internet world where you can create a fantasy life. And many, many people are. And then they're shocked when things go wrong and they're shocked when they can't compete. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right North Korea. I said yesterday that Kim Jong Un isn't going to attack anybody and he isn't. Now yesterday the stock market didn't really react to the Trump's fire and fury comment. Because that's Trump. He's sending a message that if they do attack anybody it is going to be grim. They're going to be obliterated. All right. So that message is now out there.</p>
<p>But today stocks were down because the media - the worldwide media more than the American media - the American media is, everybody's out, it's August, or at the beach - but the worldwide media is like 'oh Donald Trump is going to blow people up!". OK. They succeeded in scaring everybody.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At this point I think there is zero possibility that the United States launches a preemptive nuclear strike on anybody or uses that kind of power in a preemptive way. If we're attacked, of course. All right. What we should do is strangle them economically, put some warships on their coast, and say we're not playing games with you people. And you know, that's what we should do right now.</p>
<p>Now what about the moral use of nuclear weapons? I write about this extensively in Killing the Rising Sun. Harry Truman had to make that decision whether to drop the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of course he did. We get into that heavily.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well Pastor Robert Jeffress, our pal from Dallas - one of the biggest preachers in the country, weighed in on the moral aspect of this and he joins us now on the phone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's a couple of other stories I want to tell you about. A judge appointed by Barack Obama named Amit Mehta has ordered the Justice Department to re investigate Hillary Clinton's Benghazi e-mails.</p>
<p>Now will anything come of this? No, nothing will come of it. The reason is the swamp. But it was interesting that this judge - not a Bush or Trump person - said, "look you know, the state department didn't really do a thorough investigation into the Benghazi e-mail situation because people want to know how actively involved Secretary of State Clinton was in not protecting the American ambassador to Libya". I mean that's the crux of it. But you know the State Department they'll go back and they'll look and I would assume that the President is calling up Tillerson and saying 'hey you get your best investigators and find something if there's something there". I would assume it happens. But who knows. You know you basically have career people working for the State Department and the Department of Defense. They change the leadership but they don't change the rank and file.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the swamp is a swamp. You know we all know the IRS deal during President Obama's tenure. We all know that they went after conservative groups. Nothing happened. You know because President Obama didn't want anything uncovered.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We all know the Attorney General Loretta Lynch did something that she shouldn't have done by meeting Bill Clinton in Phoenix while the Justice Department is investigating the Hillary e-mail situation but nothing happened to Loretta Lynch.</p>
<p>So will anything happen on the Benghazi thing? No. But it was an interesting thing that happened today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In federal prison 23 percent of all the inmates right now are illegal aliens. More than 42,000 people. That costs the United States billions of dollars. So we're incarcerating 42,000 plus people who shouldn't be here in the first place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I asked my crack staff - and they are good - to try to weed out the criminals who have been convicted of felonies because it is real hard to serve federal time if you're not convicted of a felony. If it's a misdemeanor, it's a local or state thing. All right. As opposed to who they've got as far as violating our immigration laws. We can't get the breakdown. That should be put out there by the Department of Homeland Security. You've got to break it down you guys to people convicted of felonies in the USA who are foreign nationals against people you round up and are holding for deportation. So we don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But we do know that it's costing billions of dollars. So another reason to stop the intrusion on the southern border. You got the narcotics traffic, you've got people flooding in here and now 42,000 of them plus are in federal prisons. Come on. It's not good for us. Not good for any American to have this kind of chaos. Remember one million foreign nationals get green cards every year. One million legally get them so hey you far left loons, you've got a million people coming in here every year legally.</p>
<p>You don't need the rest sneaking across the border and of course the border intrusions are down big and that's something Donald Trump can point to.</p>
<p>And finally I picked up this story you won't hear anywhere else and this is an interesting story to me. It's estimated I guess that more than half of Americans are overweight in some capacity. So at Oregon State University - the Beavers, Oregon State Beavers - they're going to offer a course next year on quote unquote "fat studies" in order to teach students how weight based oppression is a social justice issue. Weight based oppression. This is new. This is added to the other social justice stuff. Race, religion, social proclivities, gender, you name it. All right. So we now have another one. Weight based oppression.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So the course going to be taught by Professor Paddy Lou Watkins who has written extensively on body image disorders as they relate to weight bias and physical activity.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Now you can mock this. I'm not going to mock. I'm going to mock the fact that social justice is now in this course. That's insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there is a major problem in America and in other countries with bullying people who are overweight, underweight, or have a deformity of some kind - little blotch on their skin. That's a major problem. It really is, particularly in children. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>At the beginning of this of this broadcast in the Talking Points Memo I put forth that we need to stop the political hatred because it sends a message that you can do this kind of stuff. Well this plays into that. You know people have different physiologies and they're born different ways. Some people put on weight like that. It&rsquo;s not their fault. Some people are big boned and some people are slender and so it&rsquo;s the way they were born, their DNA. And for our society to shame them in any way is wrong. It's bullying. It's horrible. And the psychological effect it has on individuals is terrifying.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oregon State. I'm not disappointed they have this course. This course should be in first grade in every public school and private school in the country. That you don't shame other people because they may be overweight or underweight or look different or they may have a scar or they may have a lisp. You don't do that. That's bad. Why don't we have that course? Why don't we do that? Weight based oppression - ok fine. But let's break it down and bring it to the kids. And that's the way to solve the problem. It&rsquo;s not really a social justice issue, that it's a behavior issue. You know behavior modification as a teacher - I taught high school for two years - was part of my curriculum when I taught history, English. It was part of it, you know, and I would say 'look this person in history did this and it was wrong. Or it was right.' So why don't we do this social thing because it's out of control? It really is. You know they say that kids can be very, very mean and they can.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if the word comes down from the teacher and the parents that being mean is bad - not being fat is bad, fat is fine OK - but being mean, that makes you a pariah. Then you start to see change.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now that being said it's much healthier for your body to be not overweight particularly if you're consuming a lot of sugar and starch because that's going to give you diabetes and other ailments that's going to make your life very difficult.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And it's going to cost your fellow citizens money to pay for you when you get older. So if you can keep it under control. I mean you don't have to be The Rock. I like him. I've met him. He's a good guy. But if you can keep it under control, if you can lose a few pounds, if you can discipline yourself, to eat less sugar and starch is better for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It would be better for your family, better for everybody. Better for the country. OK.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-10T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on North Korea, Manafort, & California SecessionBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-North-Korea-Manafort--California-Secession/755785309942517158.html2017-08-09T23:00:00Z2017-08-09T23:00:00Z<p>How about that? Pretty spiffy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Welcome to BillOReilly.com Premium Members to the No Spin News for August 9th, Wednesday 2017.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>We've got a lot of news today to cover so let's get right to it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>North Korea. Alright, North Korea, this is really a fascinating story. OK. Because they've been a pain in the butt for decades but now they got nukes and now they've got little nukes, little nukes they can put on missiles, and missiles can go and explode in other countries.</p>
<p>So this has been going on and on and on and on. And yesterday President Trump said this quote, "North Korea, best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He (and that's Kim Jong Un) has being very threatening, beyond a normal state. And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's President Trump.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Immediately after that, Kim Jong Un says he's going to attack Guam. He's going to throw a missile at Guam. So you can see where this is going. Nowhere.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, here's the key to it. If anybody really thought that North Korea was going to launch a missile at a country, the stock market would have been down a thousand points. The stock market didn't panic. So it's hyperboloid, word of the day, hyperbole. OK. Which means this guy Un, who's got nothing to do, he's got a backwater country that is starving, he's a pariah, which means nobody wants to deal with him, is causing trouble like he always does.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, onto President Trump. The "fire and fury" comment, the left hates that, they don't like war, they don't like confrontation, they don't like Trump. So... "Trump's a mad man, Trump's going to get us into a a war. Bop bop bop." This was best encapsulated by Brian Williams, who's a newsman for NBC. Roll that tape.</p>
<p>Brian Williams: "Malcolm, our job tonight actually is to scare people to death on this subject so the talk isn't as free as it is about a preemptive or surgical military strike."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well that is not Brian Williams' job and he should know that. It's not your job to scare people, Brian. If people want to be scared they'll watch MSNBC all day long. That will frighten them. Your job is to report the truth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's the truth. President Trump is not like President Obama or even George W. Bush. He's more like Dick Cheney. He sees the world in good and evil terms. North Korea is evil. He's not going to take any guff from North Korea. But he's not going to do anything unilaterally. Because that would require Congress getting involved. So there's not going to be a USA strike against North Korea. He's just saying that if Un were to attack any of our allies, or Guam, or Alaska, or whatever, that we'll incinerate his entire country, which is exactly what would happen with any president. You'd have to do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, so let's calm all this down. You don't have to frighten anybody, Brian, you've got to calm them down. Because the reality is nothing's really changed other than North Korea's ability to do things, but they're not going to do it, at least not now. All right. Does everybody have that?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get on to Paul Manafort. Paul Manafort used to, for a short period of time, a matter of weeks, run the Trump campaign when Donald Trump was trying to become president, trying to secure the nomination. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Manafort has a lot of dealings with Russia in his past life, big money. I've always said that Manafort is... if anyone gets hammered on this Russian collusion investigation, it's going to be a Manafort.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we learned today that on July 26, the FBI conducted a quote unquote "raid" on Manafort's house, but they did it early in the morning. So it's not.... it's hyped, but not hyped out of control.</p>
<p>So Manafort testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And the day after, the FBI went in to get his documents. They had warrants, they had all of this, they went and searched his house, brought out all the documents.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So look, Manafort, is he in trouble? I would... if I had a bet, and this is just speculation, yeah, I think he might be in a little trouble. But that's all I know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Hype, hype, hype, hype. Because the FBI went in, he's guilty, they should hang him. This is on, you know, the hysterical hate-Trump press. OK. So that's what's going on there.</p>
<p>Now I want to bring in by Skype, Michael Smerconish, my old pal, my Philadelphia bud who has got a show on Saturday on CNN. They must be paying you like 10, 12 million to do that show, and then he's on Sirius FM, which I have in my car. So Smerconish is here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
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<p>California may secede from the union. Listen to the applause. I love California but I don't know how it got so screwed up. We're going to find out. Also they have a Senate bill, 54, it's called SB 54, which would make the entire state a sanctuary state and the official thing is SB 54 would repeal existing law which requires the police to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. One has reason to believe that a person arrested for violations of specific controlled substance provisions may be an alien. And that's drugs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they're basically saying, look, California is saying "we don't want to have anything to do with the federal government. We don't care if illegal aliens commit crimes, we'll handle them the way we always handle them, which is basically letting them out, let them do what they want." I want to bring in my pal Ruben Navarrette, he's a syndicated columnist, San Diego based guy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))</p>
<p>A couple of other things and we'll wrap it up for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Colin Kaepernick doesn't have a job. He's the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who wouldn't stand for the national anthem. The 49ers cut him. 29-years-old. Decent player, not great. Backup quarterback on any team.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, is he good enough to play? He is good enough. But nobody wants to sign him because it's a distraction. And the you know, the football teams they hate distractions, they hate controversy, they just want to make money. So Spike Lee was allegedly putting together a demonstration on August 23rd at NFL headquarters in New York City in support of Kaepernick. But now Mr. Lee says this is not his idea. It's not really... don't blame him or whatever.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's the bottom line. Colin Kaepernick does not deserve to be blackballed and I don't think he's being blackballed. I don't think there's an organized NFL thing so he doesn't get signed. However, he's a huge distraction. And is it worth a backup quarterback to come in and have three quarters of the fans booing every time he steps out on the field? And then he polarizes the locker room, some people sympathize with him, some people don't. Is it worth it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think somewhere down the line Kaepernick will get back in the league. But this is a story that is very fascinating. Kaepernick has a right to be a protester, has a right not to like his country. He feels it's oppressive to blacks and minorities. OK. So he has that right. But the consumer, the people who go to the games, have a right to say, "you know what, we don't want this. We don't want political protests at a football game." Consumer has a perfect right to boo the heck out of Colin Kaepernick. But I don't think it should go beyond that. I don't think the guy should be blackballed.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Look, it's a disease, Mary, in the sense that some people are more susceptible to addiction than others. I have addiction in my family Irish have a predilection to drink too much. It's not a clich&eacute;. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to watch it. So in that case it is. But you are right, you can kick drug addiction just like you can kick alcohol addiction and cigarette addiction, or any addiction. So it shouldn't provide an excuse for people to abandon their children.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>OK, my own life was tough. My father was a tough guy. We didn't have a lot of money. So it wasn't Beaver Cleaver land or Father Knows Best or what they have now, The Brady Bunch. However, I do have compassion on children in bad homes. I really do. But that doesn't give them an excuse to put a needle in their arm. And the more that message can get out, Carol, the more you can say just because you had a bad home or were abused or were deprived doesn't mean you can go out and become enslaved to a narcotic or to alcohol, thereby hurting other people. That's the message. We've got to get it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Laurence. Clarkston, Scotland.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, the legalization of drugs has one overwhelming advantage, namely that it removes the cash flow now going to criminals. I'd be interested to see the research that compares the social impact and probable drug use versus the removal of the criminal element."&nbsp;</p>
<p>So would I. It's a public health situation. You basically, Laurence, are saying, "OK, we surrender, we'll give anybody any drug they want free, because we don't want the cartels and the gangsters to get money." But on the other hand, once that happens you're going to have very easy access to narcotics and that's going to impact this country, America, and your country, Scotland, in a very negative way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think there's a middle ground.</p>
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<p>"Bill, the reasons you mentioned in your podcast for the opioid addiction are only partly correct. Certainly, personal choices need to escape etc. I've been around forever and the national attitude toward drugs increased in the 1960s. But the present problem is due to pharmaceutical companies."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yes, in a degree that some pharmaceutical companies and some bad doctors overprescribed opioids. But the reason people continue to take them for recreational use is social.</p>
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<p>Well at the top I said that there's probably not going to be a missile launch from North Korea. I hope that makes you feel better. If there is, then North Korea is toast. That's just the reality. But Un is probably not going to do it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>"There's something about the North Korea situation I do not understand. The Soviet Union had the technology to react with us a long time ago but they never did."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well that's because it was mutual destruction. Same thing with China. I mean, those governments know, they launch, they're dead. Un knows it too, but maybe he doesn't care. It's the crazy factor that is causing all these things.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Now this morning I had to put on a tie and jacket, one of my spiffy suits. I had to go into the city to cut commercials, TV spots for Killing England, which will be out on September 19th. And you know, I got the suit on, I couldn't wait to get it off. Tomorrow I'll be back in the suit and tie for a very special event here on Bill OReilly.com. You're going to have a different look tomorrow. We're testing it out, we want you to see it, on what the No Spin News may look like in the fall. Alright, so spread the word. Tomorrow we want your input on that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, not a lot of news going on today but there is a very interesting lead story and that is about this opiate/heroin addiction scourge.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So President Trump's over in Jersey at his golf club in Bedminster, and he is convening a meeting of his drug czar and interior secretary Price and a bunch of other people. Chris Christie, the governor of Jersey, who is the head of the, I don't know, panel on drug addiction and all of that. They all get together and they basically chat.</p>
<p>So Christie heads up the commission and they're advising President Trump on what to do, if anything. And some people want a state of emergency declared so that there can be easier funding to combat drug addiction, hard drug addiction on the opiate front and the heroin front. Same thing. Opiate comes from opium, and I'm going to get through the whole thing here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a fascinating story. It's fascinating, but I think they should have methamphetamine and cocaine in this too because there's a lot of interaction. These addicts, they use whatever they can get. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, now the reason that this is happening is because since 2015, the government says there's been 35,000 overdose deaths on opiates in the USA.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That number is much more than that because it doesn't take into account AIDS. You know, these people use needles and then they share the needles and that's a big way to spread AIDS. You know, you put a needle in your bloodstream and somebody else has got the disease and then you're going to get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then there is the deterioration of your body if you take heroin and these kinds of very powerful narcotics. It wears your body out fast around the heart. A lot of these rock people die, you've seen it over the years, of drug overdoses. But even the ones that don't, you know, they die young because their bodies wear out. And then you have DUIs and then you have crime and all the Chicago murders. Most of that is drug related. They're fighting over turf and all that.</p>
<p>Now the left basically says, "well, the war on drugs doesn't work," and that's true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, "so we should surrender and legalize not only marijuana.." which is going to turn out to be a big mistake. The marijuana thing... "but hard drugs as well and that would be a way to control the situation."</p>
<p>Now certain European countries, they allow addicts to have needles and they give them that stuff and then they can use it in a certain place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I was in Switzerland when the first legalization of heroin took place there, and I got to tell you, it was a disgrace. Switzerland's a beautiful country, but parents couldn't even walk their kids outside in Zurich because there was just so many of these zombies all over the place, shooting up everywhere. And that's what would happen on legalization. It's not a restraint. It's a encouragement, legalization of drugs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, there's only a certain amount of people who are going to get addicted to drugs. That's true. Most of us aren't self-destructive and that's what this is all about. But that number can be very, very big. And we're going to go back to China in the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century to tell you how big. Shocking.</p>
<p>But anyway, let's get back to today. So the Trump Administration, because this is such a big problem, places like New Hampshire, West Virginia, Ohio, a lot of these industrial states, the kids are hanging around or using drugs, they're bored, whatever it is. And they've got to do something about it. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is a social/political dilemma because there's a lot of stuff involved here. Number one, most of the heroin comes from Mexico and that's why you need a border wall. Because they're coming across the border. So they grow the poppies in Mexico and South America, Southeast Asia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Afghanistan, huge poppy place. They harvest the opium, they turn it to heroin, it comes in. But for the United States, the black tar heroin, which is the primary source, comes from Mexico. And it's flooding in here. Heroin is cheap. It used to be expensive, it isn't anymore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the prescription drugs, opiate based prescription drugs, they come from the pharmacies. And that is hooking people and they're using that, crushing the pills, mixing it up, putting it in the needle, all of that crazy stuff. Then you have the fentanyl, which is like this unbelievably powerful synthetic narcotic, it gives you a heroin like high. They're combining that there. It is crazy what's going on out there. Alright, so all of that is in play.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Mexico, the drug cartels. I mean, just yesterday they shot up Baja, a big resort. I mean, I think it was 50,000 homicides a year down there. I mean, it makes Chicago look like St. Patrick's Cathedral. And the Mexican government has no authority at all. I mean, they can't, they won't stop it. You could stop it. You'd have to declar war on it and the army has to go in and shoot these guys. It's a war not a crime anymore. That's the only way to do it in Mexico. But they won't do it. Too much money. Money coming into politicians, to the law enforcement, all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, here in the United States, why has this suddenly happened? We've always had the drug addiction. Alright, it started way, way back. And it's about instant gratification and an escape. Feel hopeless, you live in a ghetto, or even if you live in a rich place and you're a rich person, you feel hopeless, you want to get high, you want to escape.</p>
<p>Now in China, after when the British were in there, they had opium wars. OK. And it was the British controlling the opium, the Chinese were smoking it. This all throughout Asia, if you go to Asia, opium is still very widely used, not in China, because as soon as the communists took over, Mao just shot them all, users and the sellers. They shot them, dead. And that kind of solved the problem.</p>
<p>At one point, it was estimated that 25 percent of the whole Chinese population was addicted to opium. And you know, it's the same thing as heroin but not quite as intense because you're smoking it not injecting it. But you're addicted. And that's what your life is, getting more opium.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they fought wars about this, the Boxer Rebellion. It was amazing, the intensity of it. But when the Communists took over in 1949 in China, huge addiction problem, and six months later they didn't have one, they shot them all down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, when I was at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard I did a paper on how to solve the addiction problem, the drug trafficking problem. This was back in the 90s. OK. And one of my models was Singapore, I actually went to Singapore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Singapore is a small island. And it abuts Malaysia, Malaysia has a big heroin problem. Singapore you have no heroin problem, none. Singapore is Chinese, heavy Chinese, heavy Indian. They don't get along. But the society is safe. Any time of day or night you can walk around Singapore, you don't have a problem. No drug trafficking on the streets. Two reasons.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Singapore is a fascist state. That means the government does what the government wants, ok. Government says no drugs. Zero tolerance for drugs. If you traffic here we'll kill you. We hang you. All right. And way, way back there was some Australians got hung because they were moving hard drugs through there. And then if you use, and the Singaporean government can just take you and test you, they don't have to get a warrant or anything greeting. Then you go to forced rehab, 22 months. Boom, they take the market away, take you right off the street.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK now, the twenty-two months in rehab, that's not like rehab here in the USA. They're not playing tennis. It's like a camp where you work and nobody wants to go there. What the Singaporean Government did was it took the market for drugs away and then the sellers were faced with deaths, so the risk reward was zero. And it ended the drug problem.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, people say, "well it's a disease, and this and that." Well somehow, it's not a disease in Singapore because people don't do it there. Many of them have gone over to Malaysia. If you cross the causeway, and I did in a car, and you drive from Singapore to Malaysia, as soon as you get to Malaysia you see a lot of drug addicts running around. You see them on the street.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, so we can't do that here because we have laws and this and that. But what we've done here in America is we've made intoxication, as I said in the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Drug-Addiction-Has-Reached-a-Crisis-Point/-580764511445775329.html" target="_blank">Message of the Day</a>, attractive. Oh, it's cool. I mean, think that. Think of all these celebrities who extol the virtues of getting high. And you can't make any judgments about it, oh no. Just get high.&nbsp;</p>
<p>How many Watters' Worlds did I do where we sent Jesse out to Colorado and Washington state. And there they are with the little pipes and this and that. Well yes, there's a big difference between marijuana and heroin.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don't send me letters about beer and marijuana, please, or wine and marijuana. We know the alcohol addiction in this country, it stands about 10 percent of the population. It's horrendous. We know that. And the country tried through prohibition, failed, couldn't do it. People want a cocktail, they want their beer. Nothing you can do about it. But it's not the same mentality.&nbsp;</p>
<p>My parents, my mother drank Chianti and my father drank beer. Not a lot, but at meal time or whatever. I never saw my parents drunk, ever. OK. But they liked, my mother liked a little wine, my father liked a beer. That's what they did. But they weren't drinking it to be intoxicated, to get high. They didn't. It was like a social thing. You know, my father gave me a sip of beer and I go why would anyone, that's just me. And full disclosure, you probably know this, but I don't drink. I've never used a drug in my life. I don't even like taking Tylenol. I mean I'm going out the same way I came in. All right, sober.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, look. We as a society now, and we did this in the late 60s when sex, drugs, and rock and roll came in, you know, everybody was high, everybody was this... One of the things I write about in Old School: Life in the Sane Lane is all the contemporary, my contemporary, musicians, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, they all died at 28 or 27. Same age, all died, hard drugs. OK. And it was acceptable, it was glamorous then to use pot and hard drugs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then came in cocaine and that was acceptable. Now heroin and opiates. It's not acceptable now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I can't say it's acceptable. Media is not saying "oh, use heroin," they're not doing that. But it's a creep. It's a creep. It's OK to get involved with the drug world in Colorado, Washington D.C., Oregon, Washington state, California. It's OK. It's OK. And kids are picking this up. Pot is OK. Strong pot, strong pot. All right. That, there's nothing wrong with that, that's cool. Once you get involved with the drug world it is so much easier to graduate into opiates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not everybody does. I know I'm going to get the letters. Same thing with the beer and the wine. "I can smoke pot, it doesn't affect me..."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. OK. But it's not all about you, it's about an epidemic that we have here in the United States. Once you're into the drug world, once you start to do that then that opens up everything else. So in in Colorado, everybody running around getting all the marijuana they want, they meet other people in the same marijuana haze. "Hey, wait try this. This is a better high. This is this, this is that." You see what I'm talking about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Every drug rehab counselor I have ever spoken to says the same thing. Marijuana is a gateway drug. I know a lot of people don't believe it. I know, I know, I know, I know. OK. But you're wrong. And personal experience. Not my use, but the guys in my neighborhood who got addicted to heroin, I knew a bunch of them. Most of them are dead. OK. They all started with pot. It's just a graduation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not everybody, but you get the idea.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. Now the politics of it. So Barack Obama, the president of the United States says flat out selling heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, nonviolent crime. I mean, my head almost blew off. The unintended consequences of using these hard drugs could be death. And the person is giving you the poison, selling you the poison.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the pusher goes "oh, not my fault. They just wanted it, I'm just giving them what they want. I'm not forcing them to use it."</p>
<p>Well listen, pinhead, if there were no degenerates like you, there wouldn't be a drug problem. If everybody on the Earth had a moral foundation that says you don't sell poison or give poison to other people, we wouldn't have the problem. OK. I mean, every religion in the world classifies drug use and sales as sinful because it harms your body, which was given to you by your creator according to the religions.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mexico, "oh, no, don't blame us for all this heroin. It's you in the United States, you're the users. It's not our fault that we're growing, making it, transporting it, getting all the money from it. No, no. You, it's the addict in America, you are the problem."</p>
<p>Ok, the problem spread out. It's spread out. Now, the individual drug user in the United States, there are millions of them. OK, you're going to do that? It's not just a personal decision. Your lifestyle of intoxication, which is what addiction is, to alcohol as well, hurts everybody around you, particularly children.</p>
<p>CBS did an excellent report last night, Dean Reynolds, in Ohio about these kids whose parents are both heroin addicts and they're living with their aunt. And then there's millions of kids all over the United States who are in foster homes or live in with a relative because their parents won't care for them. Not can't, won't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And one kid actually confronted his father in this CBS report, he's 14-years-old. And kid says, "Dad. Can't you take care of me? I'm in a home. You know, come on."</p>
<p>And the father says, "I just can't stop."</p>
<p>I'm sorry. Do I feel sympathy for that father? I do not. I do not. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's a personal decision. Yeah, you got a disease, but you can overcome the disease. It's hard but it's your boy. What's wrong with you?</p>
<p>So the personal respon... and don't tell the left about that, oh no. That's why I was surprised to see it on the CBS News. "No, don't make any judgments. It's a disease, so you can go run out and take heroin all day long, doesn't have to work...."&nbsp;</p>
<p>And how are you going to make money to buy all these drugs if you're addicted? You steal, you sell, you do bad things, you prostitute yourself.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Oh, don't make any judgments. Oh no, no, no."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Barack Obama, "oh, no, no it's nonviolent. Everybody should get rehab."&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know what, everybody should get rehab. But here's another truism. Many, perhaps most of these addicts, don't want to be cured. They like getting high every day. That's what they want to do. They don't care if their kids are in foster homes. It's horrible, horrible, horrible.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what can the government do? It can fund to rehab places and find out what rehab works. But it's got to be tough love. It can be every time you're picked up for a crime the judge kicks you into rehab for six months and then you're out and you're doing it again. There's got to be some punishment to it after the first time or two. OK. And you take the market away.</p>
<p>So I say you adopt the Singaporean forced rehab program but you make it more holistic and humane. Now once you're in the system two or three times for drug addiction, you've got to go, you're going, 15 months, whatever, boom, take you out, put you in the rehab place. Work, you have to work there, you have to do whatever. I'd spend government money on that, but it just can't be some big joke like it is now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They get these low level dealers, they are on the streets, they're selling poison to kids, they pop them, they come into the judge, the judge goes "oh, we'll give them rehab..." and then they go out, two hours later they're back selling the drugs on the street. Ask any cop.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the government really doesn't want to do anything about this. It's too messy. The left doesn't really want any responsibility at all. The right doesn't know what to do. It's just cops and robbers chasing these people around. As soon as they put them away there's other people taking their place because the money is huge. Mexico is sitting down there going "it's not our fault that we're the big drug transporter." Afghanistan the same way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The U.S. Army and military knows who's selling them, who's moving the poppies there. It's horrible, it's so corrupt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's my spiel. I feel very strongly about it. I don't believe that President Trump or any other president is going to do what I say, take the market away, but if he did take the market away that would solve the problem, at least most of it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>CBS poll, 36 percent job approval on Donald Trump. CNN poll, CBS has 38 percent, CNN 30... no, CNN 38 percent, CBS 36. Not much change from June. Job approval rating in the mid 30s, high 30s. Probably what it is, I know most of you don't believe in polls. That's probably where it is. If the tax cut goes through it'll jump 10 points. If they could ever get health care passed he'd go into the low 50s.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The economy is good. Everybody acknowledges that. No, I should say everybody. Any sane person. The economy is perking along. More jobs, more opportunities, it's happening. That's what Trump will run on in the year 2020. So that's what he'll run on, the economy. But he's got to get stuff done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If he doesn't get the tax cut done, here's the danger. If those pinheads can't get it done, the stock market's going down five thousand points and there's going to be blood in the street. Real estate prices will drop, everything will drop. Gotta get that tax get done. That's vital.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Food stamps. This is a fascinating story that nobody's going to cover but us. Food stamp drop. More than 1.1 million Americans have dropped off the food stamp rolls since President Trump took office in January. 1.1 million gone. My head snapped back. I said "why, what happened?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>The reasons that are put forth is that there is legislation brewing that the states are going to have to impose work rules for food stamps and they're only going to get a certain amount of federal money, it's going to be capped. Secondly, the crackdown on illegal immigration has taking many of those folks off the food stamp rolls. I think that's the big one. I think that's big. And third, that food stamp work requirements in the individual states are now getting more stringent.</p>
<p>Finally, you know Susan Rice, the national security adviser under President Obama, she's involved with this unmasking, listening to people being taped by the NSA and getting the names of the Americans involved. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She still has her classified status. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser now, extended that to her and a lot of the conservatives went "oh, man you're letting Susan Rice..." It happens to everybody. All former national security advisors retain their classified status so that if they are called upon to testify in matters they can do that. That's the reason. No big deal.</p>
<p>OK. Mail. Got a little frog in my throat, I don't know why. We'll get through it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com, that e-mail gets right to me, or the message boards, where Barbara from Milton, New Hampshire posted:</p>
<p>"If Mueller goes beyond the Russian investigation on President Trump, can Jeff Sessions step in? Seems like he should be able to."&nbsp;</p>
<p>It wouldn't be Sessions, but the Justice Department can terminate Mueller. Sessions has recused himself. But if Mueller does something outrageous, he can get fired, yes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thomas Delk, Blythewood, South Carolina.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, you continue to suggest that Muller will have to produce facts in order to damage the president. Where are the facts that led to the appointment of a special counsel? In the swamp you don't have to prove things to convict someone, you only have to suggest it."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not here, Tom, come on. The appointment of a special counsel doesn't mean anything other than we're going to look into a matter. It doesn't sway anything one way or the other.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again, I'll go back to the Russian collusion story is about the election. The left wants to overturn the election of President Trump. In order to do that you'd have to have it in stone, headline fact, backed up 15 different ways. Everybody knows that.</p>
<p>OK, Heidi, Parker, Colorado, outside of Denver.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, why is it that the Democratic Party doesn't want any restraints about immigration? What is behind the ideology? Doesn't the left realize the danger open borders would create?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's about votes. My folks came here from Ireland in the 1840s, from the famine, fleeing the famine, when they got off the boat Democrats were there signing them up. That early, signing them up. That has never wavered. The Democratic Party forever has been the party of immigrants and they get an enormous amount of votes. Entire states like New Mexico have changed from traditional Republican states to Democratic states because of the immigrant vote. That's what it's all about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dana, Laconia, New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee. I used to go up there when I was a kid. Nice summer place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, the Justice Department's withholding of law enforcement grant funding to sanctuary cities doesn't even amount to a drop in the funding bucket. No way will this minimal measure be sufficient to compel compliance from the sanctuary cities."</p>
<p>That's true, Dana. But at least they're holding them accountable somewhat. Sanctuary cities aren't going to change unless, I don't even know, unless the voters throw out Rahm Emanuel, and Jerry Brown, and all these people, and put in traditional, more conservative leaders. I mean, that's the only way it's going to change.</p>
<p>Karen Petersen, Cream Ridge, New Jersey. You know what, I know New Jersey as well as anybody, I do not know where Cream Ridge is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"The propaganda machine, along with the obstructionists in Congress, are really making it impossible for President Trump to accomplish his goals. Plus they're swaying public opinion against his agenda. Since when does the American public like Obamacare? Scary the general population is so uneducated."&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is scary. The propaganda mill is as intense as I've ever seen it here in America. And 50 percent of us have no blankin' clue what's going on. It's scary.</p>
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<p>I'm going there again next summer. I kind of go every two years over there. There isn't a better trip. If you're looking for a trip that's easy, it's like six hours from New York, your'e there, Boston. And people love you and it's not, they don't gouge you, and you're not getting dirty looks. It's a little liberal now, Ireland, but they're funny about it. Some of them.</p>
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<p>We will see you tomorrow. I'll have a tie and jacket.&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-08T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Illegal Immigration, Mueller, & North KoreaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Illegal-Immigration-Mueller--North-Korea/228578074966551602.html2017-08-07T23:00:00Z2017-08-07T23:00:00Z<p>Hey Bill O&rsquo;Reilly, Premium Members, BillOReilly.com Premium Members, I should say. Welcome to the No Spin news for Monday, August 7th, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright so we've got a lot to tell you about today. A lot of important things. First of all, the city of Chicago is suing the federal government over the sanctuary city deal. Very simply, the Justice Department says if you do not obey federal law you are not going to get grants from the Justice Department to help you. We're talking about L.A., San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, and many other places across the country that will not hold criminal illegal aliens when ICE, Homeland Security, asked them to. They want a warrant or they want a lot of legalisms and sometimes the federal government says, "just hold them, we'll come pick them up, they're in the country illegally," and they say "no."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the rationale is always the same, "we don't want to scare the immigrant community, we need their cooperation."&nbsp;</p>
<p>But on the law, the federal government is right, in my opinion. I don't think there is any doubt about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, in Chicago, for example, they're suing because they're going to lose 3.2 million dollars right off the bat. Attorney General Sessions is not going to send them the money. And that was going to go to buy police cars in Chicago. So that's a place that is chaotic. The Windy City is absolutely chaotic as you know. It's the murder capital of the United States and we're tracking it. The shootings are now more than 2000 Chicagoans have been shot this year. It's running a little bit behind last year, but not much, and it's been going on for, I don't know, six or seven years. So, thousands of people in shock.</p>
<p>So the city Chicago wants to buy more police cars, they can't because they are going to get denied block grant money from the feds.</p>
<p>Now this is all a part of the pro illegal immigration movement, which I'll explain in a moment. But there's two other stories you should know about first.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In College Park, Maryland, that's the University of Maryland, the city council now wants to allow illegal aliens to vote in local elections saying "hey, they live here. They should have rights to vote on what happens in College Park."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, but they're not entitled to vote because they're not American citizens. So again, the law.... College Park... says "We don't like the law, so we're not going to obey."</p>
<p>I don't think that's going to get through, by the way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And in Los Angeles, this is a stunning story. The city of Los Angeles, which is broke like every other city, has paid 1.3 billion with a "B" dollars to illegal alien families since 2015 in entitlements.&nbsp;</p>
<p>1.3 billion. That's staggering. And the city doesn't have any money and they're going to have less money because the feds are going to cut off, as they have in Chicago, the Department of Justice money going in there, because L.A.'s a sanctuary city.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are estimated to be more illegal aliens in the city of Los Angeles than any other place in the USA. So, the impact of all of this... by the way that data came from the Department of Social Services in L.A., the 1.3 billion spent since 2015.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here's the big picture. The progressive left, some call it the far left, does not want to restrain illegal immigration, they don't want to restrain it. So they want the E.U. system whereby anybody with a passport could come and go into America and stay as long as they want. That's the E.U. system. So if you have a valid passport from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, wherever, you come here you can stay. Alright. And that's it. Then you can come and go as you want.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's called open borders. Same thing in Canada. I mean, any border. And then I guess that would apply to overstaying visas, I guess though maybe they don't want visas. But anyway, this is the open border crew, and there are more of those people than you know.</p>
<p>Now, they can't say it. So the New York Times can't editorialize "well, we want open borders," but they do. They do. But that appalls most Americans. Second thing is blanket amnesty for everybody that's here. That pretty much every far-Left person and most liberals who aren't far left, they want that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you're here, if you got here, you can stay and become an American citizen. Amnesty across the board. This is the lobby, powerful, that has taken root in the Democratic Party. And this is what they want. Alright. This is the end game.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, obviously I could go into why this is bad but you already know that. So I'm giving you the policy.</p>
<p>So Trump wants to build the wall, the open border people don't want the wall. The Democratic Party doesn't want the wall even though it would stop narcotics. I mean, the intrusion on the southern border is way down because the Trump administration is no nonsense. So it's way down, but the narcotics is way up. And the wall would be an inhibitor on narcotics. It's not going to stop everything, it would just make it a lot harder. And that would raise the price of the drugs. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then when you get into Kate's Law. People say to me, "how could anybody oppose Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's the law that would punish any illegal alien criminal who defies deportation three times. They're giving them two freebies. And then they would go to federal prison if sentenced there by a judge, just for being in the country. That's Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the Democratic Party is not going to vote for it because they don't want, even in criminal aliens, even criminals, they don't want any restraints. And they say, "oh that demonizes the other good people, the criminals are a very small percentage."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That may be true. But still, they're not Americans and they're causing problems, as we see almost every day. Every day I could bring you a story about that. So that's basically what's happening here. That's the war over illegal immigration or immigration as it is defined.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the solution is to have Congress come together and make a very well-defined and fair immigration law. But you're never going to have that solution because the Democratic Party, their constituency is minorities, Hispanics, blacks, and they don't want any restraints. And the Republicans are never going to do that. So you're not going to have what they call comprehensive immigration reform. It's not going to happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the Trump people are hard liners, which is why Chicago's getting denied the money, L.A., San Francisco, it will go down a lot. And they will tie it up in the courts. But the money's not going to flow. They're not going to get the money, you're not going to get your police cars. You know, if the courts rule, then they'll go to the Supreme Court. But the law is on the federal government's side. OK. Everybody got it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Give me your message boards, give me your e-mails on it and we'll go over it again tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now talking about the law, the grand jury in the Russia investigation. Very simply, there is a special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, former FBI chief, he's looking into charges, allegations that Russia somehow got some people in the Trump campaign to cooperate, they call it collude, in trying to undermine the Hillary Clinton campaign.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So there's an investigation, as there should be. As there should be. As part of that investigation, and I told you this on Friday, a grand jury is being convened, because it makes it easier for Mueller and his crew to bring people in to subpoena information. And a grand jury is usually comprised of between 16 and 23 folks, regular folks, and they serve on a grand jury for more than a year and they hear big federal cases or sometimes state cases, and they're there and then the prosecutors say "this is what's going on."</p>
<p>They can bring in witnesses, they can bring in evidence. You don't have a defense attorney there. OK. But the evidence has to be pretty well defined.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And there are cases where the prosecutors will say, "OK, we're going to bring somebody in and tell you the other side of the story." But the prosecutor has the big advantage. It's a big advantage, and some people say, "well, it's always a fait accompli when a grand jury sits. There'll be an indictment."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's not true. Look what happened in Ferguson. Missouri. That police officer, charged with killing Brown, acquitted. The grand jury wouldn't bring charges. So it's not true. And in this case, there'll have to be real strong evidence, because this is all about, as we all know, overturning the election of Donald Trump. That's what this is about. So Mueller is going to have to have pretty stringent evidence and facts to present to the American people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is far more than just a little collusion, it's about an election. And, you know, about Hillary Clinton not getting a fair shot or whatever. But we'll see.</p>
<p>Now there are people who feel the fix is in, and one of those people is Newt Gingrich.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Roll the tape.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Gingrich Soundbite.))&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, from the beginning the former speaker of the House has felt that Mueller is stacking the deck against Trump. So let's bring in Alex Little, he's a former assistant U.S. attorney, now a defense attorney.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Did I get anything wrong on the grand jury deal, first of all counselor?&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, one more story and then we'll get to your mail, which is good, really good tonight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>North Korea. The U.N., amazingly, has slapped sanctions on exports from North Korea. Now, there aren't very many exports from North Korea. That's why people there are starving. They don't have any money. They spend all their money on missiles, so people don't have anything to eat. But it's a billion-dollar sanction. China is the main export place. So North Korea just sends their stuff across the border, across the bay into China.&nbsp;</p>
<p>China is in a tough spot. They didn't veto this. They're telling North Korea to knock the missile stuff off, the nuke stuff off. So this is going to hurt them. How much it hurts them, nobody knows. And there's a new poll that says like 62 percent of Americans say if North Korea were to attack South Korea, America should get involved.</p>
<p>So if this doesn't restrain Un, the idiot dictator of North Korea, nothing will. Because there comes a point where his people, North Korea, and he's got the army obviously. It's like Venezuela. Venezuela is falling apart now. The only thing keeping the crazy dictator in there is his army. And the only thing keeping Un in there is the army. But if the mass of people just rise up there and say "we don't have anything to eat, you're out of here." They'll overthrow. And that's what everybody wants.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not going to happen in Iran because their society, they have enough to sustain. But North Korea, they don't. In Venezuela, they don't. Venezuela is not a threat to anybody else, it's just falling apart.</p>
<p>North Korea is a threat.</p>
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<p>Richard Ripplinger, Seminole, Florida writes:&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, thank you for being one of the few commentators that correctly note a grand jury is a normal part of a prosecutor's investigative process. Not much of a story until the grand jury reaches a conclusion. Next question will be whether matters brought before the grand jury are kept secret. We believe they will be. I've been a state prosecutor in Florida for more than 33 years with many grand jury presentations in the mainstream caterwauling," word of the day, caterwauling. Very good, Richard. "About the assembly of the grand jury is making my head explode."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be on the Sunday shows. That's why I came on and did a special presentation on Friday, because I just thought they were going to run wild.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I think people are starting to get angry, folks are starting to get angry about all the speculation, Richard. And so it wasn't as bad.</p>
<p>Forrest in Old Monroe, Missouri says:&nbsp;</p>
<p>"You hit it on the money, Bill. It's been said a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. The reality is a grand jury is made up of random selected citizens. When they are being presented testimony from a federal agent or a police officer, they're listening to that person's assessment of facts and how they determine the facts. The jury makes their determination based on what was presented to them. Missouri, Ferguson grand jury is a good example."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, good letter. It's not fait accompli, anything's going to happen.</p>
<p>Michelle, Riverhead, Florida disagrees.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Mueller announcing a grand jury makes it more difficult for Trump to fire him." That's true. "Fair grand jury? Please." says Michelle. "The people being put on that grand jury are from Washington D.C., where Trump had a very small percentage of voters."&nbsp;</p>
<p>True. It's all true. But I don't know if you can speculate off that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rose, Norfolk, Virginia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I hope you're right about, Mueller. I have very bad feeling about this whole set up with the personal relationship between Comey and Mueller and the obvious Trump hatred. I just don't see this turning out well for the president."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, you may be right, Rose, but if there is no grand jury indictment on Trump or any of his top guys, if it's Manafort or something like that way down the chain, the press will jump up and down but Trump can just run around and say, "I told you. I told you the truth." So in the end, this could strengthen him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Karen, Farmington Hills, Michigan.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Thanks for taking time off the beach for your insight on Mueller's grand jury and the Russian investigation. The media gets everyone so worked up with their hyperventilating over Russia. We need to hear the truth about it. Problem is most people only hear what the mainstream media is putting out there and that's not the truth."</p>
<p>That's true. They're not. They want... they've already convicted, the national press has already convicted President Trump. They already believe his election was illegitimate and that's why we're doing this. That's why I'm taking the time. And I did go to the beach on Friday but I did it later on in the day. You know, summer, I'm a beach guy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Barbara, Charleston, South Carolina.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I'm sure you are told how thankful your Premium Members are for what you do. I want to add my voice, especially for tonight's audio. You're an amazing man, an American patriot."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you, very nice, Barbara, down in Charleston, great town. My cousin lives down there. I don't think I'm a great man. I think I am a patriot. I love my country. And this goes to the next letter from Marsha in Arlington, Virginia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, not rooting for any one? Really."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Who am I rooting for, Marcia? I'm rooting for the country, that's not an anyone. Look, if Donald Trump colluded with the Russians about anything he's going to get hell from me. So, who am I rooting for?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm rooting for the truth because the truth makes the country stronger. Hatred, speculation, innuendo, gossip, irrational points of view like Maxine Waters, the congresswoman, that all damages the country. So, I don't know. I mean, I don't know who you think I'm rooting for. It's clear in my commentary that I see America from a traditional lens, that I believe this country gained strength and became the greatest nation, economically, the world has ever seen and freed billions, with a "B," of people all over the world because of traditional values, and traditional thought, and traditional policies.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's clear that's my point of view and that I don't believe the far left progressive movement makes the country stronger.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Is Chicago a stronger city? Is not obeying federal law on immigration, does that strengthen America? Does it? So that's where I'm coming from.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Adam in Denver, Colorado.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I need clarification on Kate's Law. In a discussion with some liberals, they were making the claim that because the law has mandatory minimums on criminal illegal aliens being in the country illegally counts as being a criminal."</p>
<p>It's totally false and they don't know what they're talking about. Kate's Law only deals with convicted felons convicted of a crime here other then illegal crossing, or people with three misdemeanors on their sheet. Convicted. It has nothing to do with entering the country illegally. What it has to do with is if you commit a felony or three misdemeanors, you're deported and you come back again, that's when Kate's Law kicks in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Richard Skouby, St. Robert, Missouri.</p>
<p>"I heard different people say reporters should not be held accountable if they give out classified information."</p>
<p>OK. This has been going on since the 60s. The courts generally do not hold reporters accountable for publishing or broadcasting classified information. That's what the courts have ruled.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, to me, I wouldn't publish information, and I have had this situation arise, that I felt damaged the nation. Editorial decision that I made. If I felt it strengthened the nation for the folks to know it, I would probably publish it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Now look, I wanted to do this special newscast, we usually don't go up on Fridays, because of the grand jury situation. Now, if you read the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Mueller/Russia-Investigation-Update/-58207325743214922.html" target="_blank">Message of the Day</a>, which we posted yesterday, it's still there, you see that this is not an unusual occurrence. And anyone who knows how federal investigations are conducted would know that a grand jury would have to be impaneled somewhere along the line if the special investigator, I don't like to call Mueller a prosecutor because yes, he would be the one to bring charges if the situation warranted, but right now he's trying to get information. So he's an investigator, Robert Mueller.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now a lot of people think it's politicized already. Possible. You know, a lot of his staff are Democratic donors, lawyers that he's hired. Not unusual. Most of the intelligentsia and professional lawyer class are Democrats in this country. And again, I say to everyone, including President Trump, who I believe knows this, at least General Kelly, the chief of staff, knows it, the most important thing is to dispel the media speculation from the hate-Trump press that the president himself colluded in the election with the Russians. That's the most important thing. And the quicker that can happen the better.</p>
<p>And if you have a grand jury made up of regular folks, and on Monday we're going to walk you through who's on the grand jury, how they get there, and all of that, so you know the structure, because it's fascinating.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That grand jury is going to know that this is a political case, not a criminal case. This is politics, it's about politics. Alright. And they're going to know that.</p>
<p>And unless there is information that you can see with your own eyes or hear with your ears, like a tape recording that shows the president or his top staff were in touch with the Russians to subvert the presidential election, all the other stuff is garbage, like this meeting with Donald Trump Jr.&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill--Beck-Cover-it-All/728256184352121975.html" target="_blank">I was talking to Glenn Beck today about it, and that's posted on BillOReilly.com by the way, that conversation, as we do every Friday. </a>The meeting is garbage. Alright. It was...yes, the Russian lawyer and the P.R. flak from Great Britain enticed Donald Trump Jr. to a meeting saying we got dirt on Hillary Clinton. Yes, that's true. But there's no crime there. Any operative, any political operate on any opponent, if somebody says we got dirt on here, they said Ok, what do you got? Let's hear it. Anybody would do that. That's not illegal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then in the meeting, which all accounts were very short, there were discussions about adoptions and lifting sanctions off Russian oligarchs. That was the point of the meeting. It was a bait and switch. The Russians said they had stuff on Hillary Clinton. They didn't. And then they wanted to talk about getting the sanctions off the oligarchs. That's what it was about. And the adoption, because Putin banned adoption by Americans of Russian kids. That came up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Trump, apparently, after his son told him about the meeting, said "hey, you know so a lot of it was about adoption, right? That's what we say."&nbsp;</p>
<p>There was no other stuff that was in the meeting of note. There was no dirt on Hillary Clinton dished. So what's wrong with that? That's not a crime. What's wrong with it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now whether they misstated what the meeting was and the minutia of it and all of that that CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times think is so important, Ok fine. But it's not a crime.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And so all of that is going to come up in a grand jury exercise. So I like that, I want for the good of the nation, for the good of the country, I want this story to be fully exposed no matter what happened and then forgotten about, or if there is criminal activity, which I doubt, then we'll go ahead with it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want it to be done and I think General Kelly is the same way. And I told back today, I said, you know one of the interesting things is in the past Donald Trump would've tweeted his brains out about this grand jury thing, there would have been outrage, and this and that, there would have been venting. Now, you didn't hear a word about it.</p>
<p>That's Kelly. That's Kelly.</p>
<p>So, President Trump says that he did not collude with the Russians, he didn't have any discussions with any of them about the election. That's what he says, that's clear. He's entitled to the presumption of innocence. Ok, forget it, you're never going to get that in the press today, ever.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If the press doesn't like you, doesn't like your politics, doesn't like anything about you, they're going to convict you as soon as an allegation is made. Doesn't matter who makes it, doesn't matter how wild it might be, they'll convict you. That's what the dishonest press does. That's why my opinion of journalism in this country has dropped to a level that... I mean, I can't tell you, I don't even read the New York Times anymore. I won't even look at it because I know what they're doing. And I count, you know, I go on these Web sites like The Washington Post, and I just count every single day the anti-Trump stuff, speculation after speculation after speculation. And cable? Forget it. Forget it. I mean, you're not going to get the truth.</p>
<p>So let's just sum up here. Mueller is smart to impanel a grand jury. It makes his job easier and quicker. He subpoenas what he wants to subpoena, he brings in people under oath, they tell him what they know, what they don't know, and that's all. There's no evidence at all, none has been put forth that Donald Trump did anything wrong. Now, maybe Manafort, maybe some of his other people, maybe they did, and if they did they're going to have to pay a price. Flynn, there's already a grand jury looking into him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I want to know who did what. And I want to know in an orderly way. And remember, you lie to a grand jury, that's a crime. You leak... if one of the grand jury members were to leak, that's a felony. So maybe we'll get an investigation with no leaks.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally, I want to tell you this. You know, the leak about President Trump's conversations with the president of Mexico and the Australian prime minister were so harmful to this nation I can't tell you. And it doesn't matter whether you parse what Trump said to Nieto and Turnbull, it doesn't matter. Trump's on the phone. He's trying to make some points. Any human being talks this way if you look at the transcript. You can say this, you can't do that, this is how people talk. But the fact that somebody in the White House would take a transcript and give it to The Washington Post, that's treason to me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Beck said legally it isn't treason. OK. I'm not talking about legal stuff now. I'm not. I'm not talking about legal stuff. It's immoral. It hurts the nation. I don't care if it's Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, if you're the president of the United States you have to be able to have confidential conversations on your phone with world leaders. You have to.</p>
<p>And you know, Trump didn't like the deal that Obama made with the Australians to take refugees that were living on an island in the Pacific, because Australia won't accept any refugees. They won't accept any of them. Their coast guard actually picks them up and takes them to a remote island in the South Pacific. That's Australia's policy, because they know if they did take the refugees they'd be overrun in South Asia. So they don't take anybody.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But Obama, he makes a deal with Australia to take a couple of thousand of these people who are living on the island, impoverished, they have no skills, they can't speak English, and Trump says this is crazy. This is a bad deal for us. I'm going to look like an idiot if I do this. And this is what he's talking about to Australia. And that's exactly what Trump would say because that's what he campaigned on, to have an immigration system that helps the nation rather than hurt it. Now you can disagree with that. You can disagree with his immigration cut back, which isn't going to happen by the way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The United States gives a million green cards out a year. That's not going to change. And there are industries that need laborers who are unskilled to do the agricultural work and do other work. There are industries that need that. And if we can't fill them from within then they should take foreign labor. That helps everybody. But it's got to be done orderly. You just can't stroll across the border. That's insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, you know, to me I'm sitting here and enjoying my summer. I'm not in any hurry to get back into the corrupt journalism game. And by the way, I'm not corrupt. Ok. That I can tell you, to quote Donald Trump.</p>
<p>I am sitting here and I am getting more and more and more disgusted with the media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I mean, what they did to me was a horror. And in upcoming weeks we're going to give you information about that. But what they're doing to Trump is just sinful. And they couldn't care less.</p>
<p>So, this grand jury for Americans is a good thing. Alright, let's get this stupid thing done one way or the other. You know, I know that's not going to happen quickly, it's going to be another year dragging it out. And what this is all about for the press is overthrowing the election.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The American media is never going to accept the fact that Hillary Clinton lost. Never. They are never going to accept it. And every second that Donald Trump spends in the White House the media is going to try to disrupt his administration. That's what it is. That's what it is. And you have elements of that now even at Fox doing that. OK. Because there's been a big sea change there, as you know. And this is like 100 percent across the board. Our goal is to make it impossible for Donald Trump to run the country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, going back to Kelly, the new Chief of Staff, General John Kelly. Brilliant move. And Kelly, I'm going to reiterate it again, I don't want to be repetitive but he's the one that stopped Trump from tweeting about this grand jury. I'm positive of this.</p>
<p>Now Trump goes on a 17-day working vacation. Here's what that means. As we discussed before, he doesn't really have many hobbies. He doesn't, you know, he's not a guy that's going to lay in the chair and read a book. He's not going to do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, he's going to Bedminster, New Jersey. He has a beautiful club there, gorgeous club, great golf course, and he's going to play golf and he'll meet people and have discussions. Kelly will be there. All his crew will be there, and he's going to take a couple of weeks off. He'll have his kids there and his wife there and that's what he'll do. This is the Mar-a-Lago north in the summer. He doesn't like Palm Beach in the summer, it's too hot.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he's going to be there, and then you assume that Trump being Trump, he'll go out, he'll do some speeches. You know, he just is too restless, he's too hyper. He'll do stuff. But you can also assume that the press will try to do everything they can to keep the Russia story alive, to keep pounding the speculation, to keep convicting Donald Trump of whatever they can think of, we're going to convict him of.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the final thing is, you know, if you look at the economy, and that's what it's all about for Trump, the economy is doing well. It's doing well. The stock market is crazy, crazy good. Unemployment, very, very low now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I just saw that Mazda and Toyota are going to build a big plant in the United States. You know, if Trump can get this tax cut passed, which is everything by the way, this is the story of the fall. He's getting no matter what they do, how they attack him about Russia or anything else. If he gets this economy in a really strong place, his administration will then turn around and regain momentum.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Kelly understands it. I understand it. It's up to the president to rein in his emotions. He has got to do that, but he has some advantages now economically. And that's where we are.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, look, I want you all to have a really, really great weekend. I'll give you a couple of updates.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have a book called The Day the World Went Nuclear, off Killing the Rising Sun. It's a kids book but adults can read it. With what's going on in North Korea, a very important book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, you'll love it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Old School: Life in the Sane Lane if you want some laughs on the beach, where I am. That's a perfect book to read.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I'm not rooting for anyone. I'm rooting... I shouldn't say that, I'm rooting for the country, the country is not a person. But I'm rooting for the country because we need a change here. We need to change. And next week that's going to be my theme. The changes that we as Americans need to make to make this country great again, to quote President Trump. Alright. Have a great weekend and we'll talk again on Monday.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-04T07:00:00ZO'Reilly on Taxes, the Press, and Vacation Advice for TrumpBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Taxes-the-Press-and-Vacation-Advice-for-Trump/580745589917383636.html2017-08-03T23:00:00Z2017-08-03T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, August 3rd 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As we reported yesterday, the tax cut situation is unbelievably complicated because it's not just about doing what's right for America, which would be to have a tax cut for working folks and a corporate tax cut so that they would bring the money back from wherever they're hoarding it in Europe and other places and they would have more money for research and development to create more jobs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Those things are obvious to almost every economist, but this isn't about that for the Democrats because they know if they can kill tax cuts, Trump is done. If you don't get health care reform done and you don't get tax cut reform done, it's over.</p>
<p>So therefore, there is no rational debate going to take place. It's all going to be power politics and Chucky Schumer, our pal from New York, who is the Senate minority leader, he took Harry Reid's place, he's already put out the word to the Democrats in the Senate, hey, any tax cut that raises the deficit a little bit, no way you can vote for that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now that means that every tax cut because they're never going to be able to cut programs to match the tax cuts because the Democrats will never cut programs, social programs. Maybe they'll cut military spending but Trump's not going to do that. So you see what the con is? It's a big con right now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the Republicans have already said, look we know we're not going to get any cooperation from the Democratic Party on tax cuts. We know that. Maybe Manchin and a couple of the others, this woman from North Dakota, Heidi something, the name escapes me at the moment. But anyway, maybe they get one or two, but Schumer has made it quite clear if you don't toe the party line forget about getting money for your re-election campaigns and forget about getting pork for your districts, because me, Chuck Schumer, will stop it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean, that's what Reid did, it's what Nancy Pelosi does in the House. He's basically saying, look it's our way, you go our way or we hurt you. And that's why the Democrats are united against reforming Obamacare, because they're petrified. If they were to vote for something that Schumer didn't like, they're out, they're done as far as being an establishment Democrat in the Senate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So don't expect cooperation or bipartisan agreement. It's all a bunch of crap. Sorry about that word. I don't like that word, but it's a facade. Alright. This isn't about you and how much money you have in your pocket and how much security you can provide your family and what the educational things that you might be able to save for.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not about that. It's about destroying Trump. Because if Trump does not get this done, this tax cut for working Americans, it's over. Over in '18, Democrats will win the House and the Senate and then he'll just wave goodbye when his term is up. And I don't want to be hysterical about it but that's the truth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, do I expect the Republican party to rally around the president and vote for tax cuts? Yes, but there'll will be one or two outliers, you'll see them, and that's all it might need.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So again we're living in a dysfunctional country where our elected representatives in Congress aren't looking out for you. They're not voting what's best for the folks. They're playing a terrible, horrible political game.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So today I want to bring in my pal Dennis Miller, who does a very funny bit on the Spin Stops Here shows, live shows that Miller and I do across the country, about what he believes Americans are owed who get government subsidies. Because Miller and I, and maybe you, we pay a lot of money to the government. When you add it all up it's about 50 percent for me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And a lot of that money, Miller's money, my money, it goes to people to help them eat, have houses, have health insurance, whatever. So what do we owe these people?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Miller joins us from Santa Barbara California, what do we owe them, Miller?</p>
<p>((Interview starts at 4:40))</p>
<p>OK, so Miller is lucky and he gets to go to nice places in Europe. Not going to intrude on his privacy but he gets this vacation every summer and he's a lucky guy to get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now. August is an interesting month. Here's what we can expect. We're going to be here the whole month and next week on Wednesday we have this special thing, as I've been kind of teasing, and I'm going to need your input. Since we started this podcast, I guess it was what, oh three months ago, something like that, 12 weeks ago, in that range...we've doubled our premium membership. And word is spread that if you want a good encapsulation of the news in 30 minutes and you can listen to it whenever you want, this is the place to be.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So people are, you know, people are distracted, people have a lot of things going on. Older people they don't really...they're not that comfortable with going to a web site, but everybody is getting the message, and I think that in the next six months or so that this thing will, this podcast and the No Spin News will start to significantly impact what's happening in the country as we did on television.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now people ask me, "are you going to return to television?" I don't know. I might. I have a lot of offers, luckily. I'm going to look at it in the fall, early September we'll start to look, see what's around, all of that. I'm not in a hurry. It's a nasty, dirty game.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If I get back in, I'll be attacked. I know that. I have my attorneys ready to go. There's going to be some headlines that you're going to get in the next month or so. You know, we're not going to sit around and take a lot of crap anymore. I made a mistake in not confronting things head on. I can't really explain why now, but someday it'll come out. But it's going to happen again.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And so we're going to do what we do every day, which is give you an honest presentation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So in August, you have Donald Trump, he needs a vacation. Now I've known the man for 30 years, I've never seen him take a vacation, never. He plays golf, that's his big relaxation deal, socializes. You know, he likes to have dinner and chat, but he's not a traveler.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He's not a guy that wants to go to Club Med or hangout or anything like that. I don't think he does water stuff, like I'm always in the water and swimming in the ocean, the pool, whatever, diving. That's my big recreation. He doesn't do that. He's not a skier.</p>
<p>So he doesn't really...he's not a vacation kind of guy. He needs one. So play a lot of golf Mr. President or whatever, you need to get away from this.</p>
<p>And as I tweeted today, and by the way we have more than two million tweet followers, @billoreilly. As I tweeted today, no more responses to the Russian thing for Donald Trump. Don't. Let your attorneys handle it. They're never going to stop, they the Trump haters, the people who want him out of office. Never going to stop.</p>
<p>So look, if the president didn't do anything as he says, just let it go right now and then if things come up, you have your attorneys deal with them. If you have to deal with them, then look the American people in the eye, just go into the Oval Office, turn on the cameras like I'm doing right now, and tell the folks what you want to tell. That's it. That's how you handle it. Simplify, simplify, simplify.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, me as a journalist, I know and I wrote a column for The Hill earlier this week, I hope you have read it, if you haven't It's on BillOReilly.com. I know what's happening here with the press and I think it's just disgusting and appalling. And I've never seen anything like this in 42 years in this business. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, they got hammered. President Obama, he got hammered from one precinct. But the mainstream media loved him. And that's true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And if you want power, if you're a person like me in the public eye who's controversial, you're going to get it. But this constant industry that's been created on MSNBC, CNN, it's an industry now, it's a money maker.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Once that happens, you have to walk away. You have to get away. And especially if you're president because you've got important things to do. You've got a lot of things to do for this country. And this is a distraction. Look, the polling this week is horrible for Donald Trump. Forget about it. If you're the president, forget about it. You've got a new chief of staff, General John Kelly. The left can't attack him.</p>
<p>They've tried. One nut said, "oh he's militarizing the White House." But Kelly's a pretty solid guy. So you've got a new guy in there. He's going to reorganize. Please listen to him. You have to do everything he says. But let's consider him. Alright. Don't respond to the Russian stuff and get the tax cuts passed. That is huge.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tomorrow I'm going to give you some updates on the tax cut stuff on the tweet thing and we'll have a message of the day. But look, August is going to be kind of dead. But with Donald Trump, you never know. But if I were him, I would take as much time off as I could. Regroup, reorganize, re-strategize. You've got to get that tax cut passed. You have to do it. And let the month unfold in a very quiet way. Does that makes sense to everybody? OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's go to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Richard Ripplinger. Two ways to get me by the way, Bill@BillOReilly.com, that's what Richard did, or the message boards, which are really getting to be very lively. They're always lively, they're always good.</p>
<p>But now we're stepping it up a little bit because we have so many new members and differences of opinion, which I love, and we're not nasty because we don't tolerate nastiness. No four letter words, no personal attacks. It's not going to happen on our watch.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, so Richard Ripplinger, Seminole, Florida says.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"If Trump fires General Kelly what do you mean by it's over, Bill? He won't be impeached or indicted. More extreme bad publicity for sure, more rocks for the Libs and Dems to throw at him. But over?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's why it's over. This is why this whole thing, and I know you've been following me, Richard, so you know what I'm talking about here. General John Kelly was a risk for Donald Trump because he is so powerful and credible. So Trump to his credit, to his credit, puts Kelly in charge of the White House. But this isn't Reince Priebus. So Kelly comes in, takes the job, and remember, he did a good job as homeland security chief, and he's going to try to sort it out. If he, two months from now walks out and says "I can't work with Donald Trump," it's over because his own party, the Republican Party, would then turn against him. So legislation... nothing would get passed that the president supported. They have no power.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You can be a president with no power. That can happen in this country. Jimmy Carter didn't have a lot of power. He lost credibility so fast. Ronald Reagan built power and at the end he was hugely powerful. Barack Obama had some power, but most of it was executive order power. Donald Trump would still have that, but if he loses his party he's done. If he doesn't work out, and I mean acrimonious, say Kelly says "I don't like the job, but I love Trump," that's not going to hurt him. But if Kelly goes out and says, "hey, this is crazy and Donald Trump can't run the government," it is over, Richard, I'm sorry. I have to tell you the truth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ralph Woolbright, Reno, Nevada.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, please explain the difference between the director of communications and a press secretary."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's his boss or her boss. The director of communications, he's in charge of messaging for the White House, and then they hire somebody like Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee to get the message out. So Spicer and Huckabee work for the director of communications.</p>
<p>Alfred Korndoerfer, Browns Mills, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I agree with you, Bill, that this is Trump's last chance. I'm hopeful that his hiring of General Kelly and empowering him with a real change agenda is going to help. Keep up the good work. Miss you on the boob tube, but at least I can still see your reports on my computer. Your clear minded perspective is always welcome, even when I don't agree."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well that's clear minded, Alfred, for you. You know, I don't expect you to agree. I mean, I don't want you to agree unless you feel what I have to say is worthy and fact based. But we're here just to present the truth as we see it based on facts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bob from Old Bridge, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Sad truth is without mandatory minimums, which Kate's Law does not have, the Oregon result probably would not have changed."&nbsp;</p>
<p>We're talking about the guy in Oregon, deported 20 times, allegedly raped two women, one of them 65 years old. It would have worked. But here's what you're missing, Bob. Yes, there are no mandatories, and I did call for mandatories in Kate's Law. When I designed Kate's Law, I had a mandatory five-year minimum if you defy deportation and you have a felony on your rap sheet. Now it's three chances with a felony or three misdemeanors and no mandatory, but up to 10 years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But here's the deal. Nobody, nobody is going to defy deportation under Kate's Law 20 times. Nobody. Because once they do it three or four, they're going to be in prison, federal prison, for whatever the judge gives them. But I don't think it's going to be lenient. Couple of crazy judges, but most of them are not that insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And remember, Kate's Law gives the authorities, both federal and local, the right to pick you up if they know that you have defied deportation. They can just pick you up, arrest you immediately on the spot. You don't have to commit a crime.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, Brian Williams, Burtonsville, Maryland.</p>
<p>"Bill, I'm tired of sanctuary cities and states getting off the hook when a criminal with multiple deportations...Why can't municipalities be held accountable by victims.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because the code, the civil code, is you can't sue public officials or municipalities unless there's a gross dereliction of duty or gross something happens, alright. You can't sue them on policy if they don't obey a policy. It's complicated. You can try. In some jurisdictions, you might have a better chance, but it's very hard.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bernard Smith, Villa Park, California.</p>
<p>"MS-13 is a huge problem for some states, one being New York. I'm one of those who watch very little TV news because of the lack of facts." Excellent, Bernard. "I depend on you and do read The Wall Street Journal. I think your take on MS-13 would be helpful to all your listeners."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok. Basically, MS-13 is a drug gang and it emanates from El Salvador. And as some of you know, I covered the war down there in the early 80s. It's a nasty place, still a nasty place, El Salvador. Beautiful country, but gangs, and crime, and violence, and corrupt government, and, you know, you name it. So they come here and they are violent. They being the MS-13. Kids as young as eight and nine are in that gang. Because they don't have families or whatever, the gang takes them and trains them and it's like a paramilitary organization. So they come here and they do what they did in El Salvador. They sell drugs, they extort, they abuse people, and they take root. So that's who they are. Very dangerous, very violent.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Trump's dealing with them, it's a good thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anthony Pennacchio, Brooklyn, New York.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, love the No Spin News. I listen each morning with my coffee as I start the day." Good, that's a good way to start the day. "What happened to the Minnesota police shooting of that woman.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have to wait and see what the investigation finds out. Very strange story. First Somali police officer in Minneapolis history shoots a woman who called 911 to report a crime. No reason the shooter shoots her from the inside of the car. She's unarmed. Crazy, crazy, crazy story. But I can't force the authorities in Minnesota to do anything. They're investigating. Now, if the investigation is shoddy, I'm going to call for the feds to come in. Because there's something very, very wrong.</p>
<p>But, Anthony, we are on this and we will not get off. We're going to find out what happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Margus Barry, Gourock, Great Britain.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, as a new Premium Member I'm really enjoying reading Killing the Rising Sun." Excellent. "Here in the U.K., Donald Trump is seen as a failing president. The media are relentless in their attacks on him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Right, because you have a liberal media by and large, you have the same problem Marcus. You have the same problem in Great Britain as we have here in the United States.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The engrained national media is left and devoted left, fanatical left. Of course they don't like Trump. They loved Obama. They did. So it's the same exact problem. Of course they're going to spin that he's failing president. It's what they do. But I'm glad you're paying attention to us because we'll give the president a fair chance and a fair shot.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, that's the mail. And let's just quickly go to the touts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Miller/O'Reilly shows: Friday, September 22nd, Baltimore, going to be a fun show. The next night in Tampa at the Amalie Arena, Saturday, September 23rd. December 15th, Caesar's Palace in Vegas, the show's almost sold out, so get your tickets. Saturday, December 16th, Anaheim at the Honda Center, huge show there.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The kids book, The Day the World Went Nuclear. And that's for adults too. That's off Killing the Rising Sun.</p>
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<p>And if you buy the Legends &amp; Lies: Civil War or any of the other Legends &amp; Lies books, you get a free Legends &amp; Lies T-shirt. Thanks for being Premium Members and we'll talk to you soon.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-03T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Russia Sanctions, Border Wall; Interview with Adam CarollaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Russia-Sanctions-Border-Wall;-Interview-with-Adam-Carolla/-998907023498753591.html2017-08-02T23:00:00Z2017-08-02T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, wow, August 2nd 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I can't keep track of the days. It's just crazy. Not a busy news day today as compared to what has been going on, but substantial stuff in play.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm going to run it down real fast. We've got Adam Carolla, who actually testified in front of a congressional committee about craziness on campus. And I want to get his view and I also want to get this stupid wire in the back of my head here, on that and we'll have some fun with that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, so President Trump signed the Russian sanction thing about Putin and he said that this hurts his ability to negotiate with Russia but he's going to sign it anyway because if he didn't he would have been overridden, his veto would have been overridden. Both the House and the Senate want to punish Russia. I'm with him. Putin needs to be punished. Needs to be sent a message that you mess with our democracy, we're going to hurt you.</p>
<p>So, I understand the president's point of view that he wants to try to convince Putin to do certain things but Putin intruded on our election. He's got to be held accountable for that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The second thing is this immigrant thing where Mr. Trump wants to limit illegal immigration and put it on merit. About a million foreigners a year get green cards to come to the United States. I don't know what the breakdown is as far as how long the wait is, some of it is lottery stuff, some of it is luck of the draw, some of them are inline. But Trump wants it on merit, not family business.</p>
<p>So, if you're a Ph.D., very successful person in India, Trump wants you. If you're not, if you don't have a skill set, he doesn't want you. This is not going to fly. Alright.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are enough Republicans in the Senate that...they're going to kill this. So the immigration thing is going to stay the same legally. Not going to change. There'll be a lot of hue and cry about it. There'll be a lot of angst about it, but in the end the Senate will never ever limit immigration on merit. They're not going to do it, period. So it's more of a symbolic thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the message sent by Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader from New York, I call him Chucky, I've you known him forever, I was a local reporter here in New York City at channel 2, I didn't call him Chucky, I always call him senator when I see him. But he sent a message out like we're not going to cooperate on the tax cuts just like we sabotaged Obamacare reform, we'll do the same thing on the tax cuts.</p>
<p>Schumer is basically threatening the Senate, his senators. I'm going to get into this very deeply tomorrow with Dennis Miller but I'll just tell you now I don't think Schumer's going to be successful this time, but I could be wrong because there are three Democratic Senators, Manchin from West Virginia, Donnelly from Indiana, and Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota who aren't cooperating with Schumer, and that means they're not going to get any money for their re-election campaigns. So that's what Schumer does. Pelosi does it too in the House. You don't go along with our party line, forget about any money, forget about any pork for your district. That's the threat.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But tomorrow, big tax cut day right here on the No Spin News. There is a very, very good op-ed by the governor of Maine, Paul LePage, very flamboyant guy, in The Wall Street Journal today on Obamacare. Excellent. One of the best summaries I've ever read. So you might go there and look at<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/maines-two-senators-let-us-down-1501624408" target="_blank"> Paul LePage's op-ed</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And there is a poll from Rasmussen that says 56 percent of Americans no longer support, if they ever did, a border wall. So Fifty six percent of Americans don't want a border wall. It's misleading. Most Americans want security on the southern border. Do they want a wall from San Diego to Brownsville? No, because it's not feasible. Do they want the border secured? Yes. So don't worry about that poll. That really doesn't matter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And here is the story of the day and the reason that we have our pal Adam Carolla warming up in the bullpen, he just threw a slider. This is a great story. Psychologists say that more and more young Americans are entitled. OK, now what does that mean?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm just going to read you this article from Psychology Today. Ooh, Psychology Today.</p>
<p>"Researchers discovered that large amounts of young people are developing an entitlement complex. The psychological trend comes from the belief that you are superior to others and are more deserving of certain things. This form of narcissism has significant consequences such a disappointment and a tendency to lash out. Psychology Today reports that some examples of entitlement ranged from the disregard of rules, freeloading, causing inconvenience, and likely to assume the role of a leader when working in groups."&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you dominate the groups, you yell and you scream.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"So-called Millennials, who are born roughly between 1988 and 1994, tend to have this characteristic, as a 2016 study found."</p>
<p>So millennials are the villains here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The University of Hampshire found... I think that's Hampshire England, but it doesn't say New Hampshire, so the University of Hampshire found that youngsters who were studied on issues of entitlements scored 25 percent higher than people ages 40 to 60 and 50 percent higher than those over the age of 60, because they're the boomers, the baby boomers, brought up by parents who went through the Depression and World War II.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is what I write about in Old School: Life in the Sane Lane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Oftentimes, life, health, aging, and social world don't treat us as well as we'd like to be treated."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Everybody knows that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Confronting these limitations is especially threatening to an entitled person because it violates their world view of self superiority."</p>
<p>OK, so you Millennials out there.</p>
<p>Now, Adam Carolla has a great podcast, one of the most successful podcasts in the world. And you should check it out. Because he's funny, but he's on it. He's on it and he's not an ideological zombie on either side. OK. So Carolla for some reason that he's going to tell us about, gets called to testify in front of a congressional committee about the chaos on college campuses and why it's happening and what he thinks about it. He comes into us now from Los Angeles.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Alright, so let's get to the e-mail now. And that was very instructive. See, on TV I could have never done that kind of length of an interview with Carolla.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the mail, we'll go to... two ways to reach me, Bill@BillOReilly.com and then the message boards.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from the message boards, Karen, Battleground, Washington.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, do you think President Trump is watching your daily podcast?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>No, I don't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"He really needs to hear your frank perspective. He needs people to tell him the truth and you are the best and most fair person out there relative to events at the White House since he assumed office."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, I know that Donald Trump is a guy who likes to watch TV in the morning and late night and podcasts I don't think are on his agenda. But I think that he knows by...they get a briefing. And I think on that briefing he knows where I'm standing on a lot of issues.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Marsha, Arlington, Virginia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I have no problem with McCain's recent no vote on reforming Obamacare. Trump has to realize that his nasty and hurtful comments have repercussions."</p>
<p>Marsha, that's a little shortsighted though with all these people getting hurt with the ObamaCare subsidies raising premiums and raising co-pays and everything else for working Americans.</p>
<p>You know, McCain, yeah I understand why the senator is angry. I know he doesn't like Donald Trump, but you've got to think about the folks. And Arizona is one of the worst states for Obamacare abuse.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Carol, Yucaipa, California.</p>
<p>"Bill, sorry to tell you this, but you really need some education about addiction to opiates and other drugs. I'm board certified in addiction medicine and have listened to your commentary in the past. You simply do not understand that addiction is a disease and not the result of compulsion by watching the Internet or by people just giving up. That notion has been disproven in the last 20 years but I cannot believe someone of your intelligence makes these comments."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, Carol. This is a respectful disagreement between me and you. I cede, C-e-d-e, that addiction is a disease in the sense that certain people have a predilection to become hooked on stuff.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm one of them. In my family we've had a lot of alcoholism going back and I know that I can, if I find something pleasurable, that something becomes in my mind. So therefore, I don't drink, and I don't take drugs, and I don't overeat, and I don't do destructive stuff to my body. OK, because I analyzed myself and know well look at all my family members. We have a predilection for this in our DNA. OK.</p>
<p>So, yes it's a disease, but it's a choice. And I'm telling you, Carol, and you've got to know this, in this time when everyone knows the dangers of Fentanyl, and heroin, and OxyContin, everyone knows yet they still choose to start with it and continue with it. There has to be some element of personal responsibility there. There has to be. If there isn't, then it's basically a free fire zone, and well, it's not my fault, and you've got to give me all the drugs I want because it's like getting cancer. It's not like getting cancer. There is a difference.</p>
<p>Now, I said that I believe the instant gratification that is now addicted American society and other societies as well, makes it more attractive to use drugs, because we are...now, because of the machines, we're used to getting whatever we want instantly. Instantly. And if we want to feel good, if we're feeling bad, we want to feel good. The drug does that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I think I'm pretty logical on this and I'm pretty, what they say "holistic" at UC Berkeley on this. And I want to help but I also know that you just, you've got to call it the way it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Debbie Hibbert, Lebanon, Oregon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Just when I thought my state was already far left as it could possibly go, I hear about the alleged crimes of Sergio Martinez. I live a couple of hours south of Portland. I've heard next to nothing about this horrible incident except from you, O'Reilly. Thank you for bringing us the No Spin News."&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, I don't know what's going on in certain places, but this Sergio Martinez is now charged with raping two women, deported 20 times, Mexican national. This should be front page everywhere. But it's not, and we all know it's the politically correct progressive left that is stymieing and they're keeping the news off the air and off the front page. That's what it's about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Malcolm Rogers, Corpus Christi, Texas.</p>
<p>"Bill, I've e-mailed Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott requesting support for Kate's Law. As a concerned individual what else do you advise me to do?"</p>
<p>You do what you can do. You know, Cornyn, your senators, and Cruz will vote, both vote for Kate's Law. Abbott, the governor of the state, maybe he can get a a Kate's Law in Texas, they already have some immigration laws there on the state level. But you're doing what you should do, Malcolm, you're involved. If every American was like you we'd have a much better country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally, David in Scottsdale, Arizona.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, good podcasts. I wrote to you a couple of weeks ago telling you when I travel I listen to your books on CD. Just made a trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado, interesting place. I took Old School on the trip, you and I are close to the same age so I identify with a lot of what you said. However, I have a warning to others that listen to this while driving. I related so much that it brought back a lot of memories and I found myself distracted."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, I don't want you distracted, but Old School: Life in the Sane Lane is a very funny, good vacation read. That's all I can say.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Killing the Rising Sun, good historical read.</p>
<p>If you <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Killing-England/Killing-England/48866.html" target="_blank">preorder Killing England</a>, out September 19th, you get 50 percent off any of the killing books. And I recommend Killing the Rising Sun, if you haven't read any of them. Read that and that'll go right into the pace and the style, it will get you right into Killing England.</p>
<p>Miller and I, and Miller's on tomorrow, we'll be in Baltimore, Tampa, Vegas, and Los Angeles coming up with the Spin Stops Here shows. We'll link you right to the box offices if you want to see us live. It's worth it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don't forget, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Trump-Boasts-About-Economy;-Affirmative-Action-Under-Fire/917384103196630068.html" target="_blank">Bill's Daily Briefing</a>, that's a new feature on BillOReilly.com. Top stories of the day, we list them down for you.</p>
<p>We have a new poll. How long do you expect Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general? That's interesting.&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/The-Left-Scouting-for-Outrage/-330284103066277957.html" target="_blank">Staff column, liberal outrage over Trump's Boy Scout speech</a>. Another dopey story. We've got a lot of stuff on the website, you guys know that, that's why you're Premium Members. We'll see you tomorrow with Miller.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-02T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on White House Shakeups, Sanctuary City Chaos, and Drugs in AmericaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-White-House-Shakeups-Sanctuary-City-Chaos-and-Drugs-in-America/56874337369118877.html2017-08-01T23:00:00Z2017-08-01T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, August 1<sup>st</sup> 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So a couple of big stories in the wind here. We&rsquo;re going to talk about this Portland, Oregon illegal alien deported twenty times who was protected by the authorities in Multnomah County and then went out and allegedly raped two women, one 65 years old&hellip;how the community is responding to that.</p>
<p>Another Kate&rsquo;s Law situation, we&rsquo;ll update you on what the Senate is doing with Kate&rsquo;s Law. So we&rsquo;ve got a lot of stuff.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But first we begin with the Trump reorganization. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill-OReilly-and-Bernie-Goldberg-on-the-Anti-Trump-Media/-994686217731792867.html" target="_blank">As you heard yesterday in my conversation with Bernie Goldberg</a>&mdash;if you didn&rsquo;t hear that, I hope you go listen to it because that was really instructive. Because Bernie, as you know, is not a Trump fan, and I say that the move to appoint General John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff is basically a lifesaver for the president. You&rsquo;ve got to give Trump some credit for doing it because Kelly is not the kind of guy who you can push around.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he&rsquo;s going to right the ship even if the president doesn&rsquo;t want the ship righted in that direction. That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s going to happen. And we also said that if Trump were to fire Kelly, that would be pretty much it.</p>
<p>Now, the reason is, and I got a lot of mail that I&rsquo;ll read at the end of the program&hellip;some people are mad and say &ldquo;oh, no, no, no you can&rsquo;t say this&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The reason is that if you lose your own party, as Richard Nixon did, if you lose the Republicans and they say publically or privately that you&rsquo;re not fit to govern, you&rsquo;re not going to get anything done. You&rsquo;ll be sitting in the White House for three years and nothing will happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump is not there yet, but John McCain sabotaged him on the healthcare bill, no doubt. And if you listen to what the Senate, in particular, is saying, they&rsquo;re basically sending the president a warning: you&rsquo;ve got to calm things down. You can&rsquo;t have chaos every day. And that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re experiencing here. It&rsquo;s not good for the country.</p>
<p>I want to bring in today Monica Crowley, an old friend and colleague, who was and still remains a supporter of Donald Trump, to give her view of what exactly is happening with the president.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>In another big story we're covering for you, an illegal alien criminal, deported they say 20 times, 20 times, apparently raped two women in Portland, Oregon recently.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But here's the deal, ICE had asked for the man to be detained last December, because obviously he's in the country in a criminal fashion and he shouldn't be.</p>
<p>Multnomah County, where Portland, Oregon is, is a sanctuary county. Portland is a sanctuary city. They let him go, let them go. So now two women have been brutalized by this guy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the state Republican chairman... you've got to remember that Oregon is an interesting state. The coastal area is very liberal and Democrat, over the mountain range in the east it's conservative. I worked at Channel 2 KATU in Portland. It's a hybrid state.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, the state Republican chairman, Bill Currier, said that the attacks, he called them horrific, are directly on the leadership in Portland and Multnomah County, perhaps the most liberal county in the country, could be.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's the quote from Currier:&nbsp;</p>
<p>"He (the 31-year-old illegal alien, Martinez, Sergio Martinez) was given preferential treatment. Essentially in Oregon, our governor and the mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, have created a protected class for illegal aliens that commit serious crimes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Martinez is now being held without bail, two million. The charges are robbery, kidnapping, and sexual abuse. One of his alleged victims, 65-year-old woman brutally attacked in her home allegedly by Martinez.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, what's the reaction among the folks in Oregon and how is the media covering it out there? Let's bring in our panel Lars Larson, he's a nationally syndicated radio talk show host for Compass media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))</p>
<p>Now an update on Kate's Law. We called Senator Grassley's office. As you know, Kate's Law passed the House of Representatives, so it's there. OK. And it goes to the Senate. But so far, there's been no action taken on Kate's Law, none. So that's because of the Affordable Healthcare Act and all of the other things, they can't chew gum and walk at the same time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All they have to do is put it into committee in the Senate, take the House, what was passed in the House, revise it a little or say no we like this, and then put it to the floor vote.</p>
<p>One congressman voted against it, a guy in Michigan who shouldn't be serving. I don't think any Republicans would defect on this. I could be wrong, maybe Susan Collins again in Maine. As I said, she's a Democrat. But certainly, I think it will pass. But they're dragging their feet on it. The Senate is, you know, maybe it'll get up in October and November. But they've got, you know, the tax cut thing they have to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, the reason this is so important is because if there were a law that said an illegal alien three times deported then goes to jail if we catch you again, then guys like Martinez would be in jail for up to 10 years. And I've been pounding that... Kate's Law is my invention and I don't say this with any ego. I've been pounding this for five years.</p>
<p>Now we did get Jessica's law passed, you remember that was way back a decade ago, in 45 out of 50 states. Hawaii is hopeless. Idaho, I don't know what you're doing out there. But 45 out of 50 states passed mandatories against child predators, adults who commit sexual battery on a child. 45 out of 50. You remember Jessica Lunsford in Florida. This predator, this convict, who was out, she should not have ever been out of prison. He killed her, murdered her. That's Jessica's Law. So, we crafted that and 45 out of 50 states enacted it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Have you heard a lot about child crimes? That law blunted what was an epidemic. You'll remember the reporting I did where judges were letting predators out of jail with no... sometimes with no prison time, so we stopped that. And Kate's law wouldn't stop the criminal aliens, but it would really give the authorities a heads up, a leg up I should say, I'm getting my anatomy mixed up here, to put them in prison if they just find them here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, we're on it by the way, Kate's Law, we're on it.</p>
<p>Now, a couple of other stories of note.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey is calling for a state of emergency on the opiate thing. The heroin and the pills that you get and the injectables that are enslaving people all across the country.</p>
<p>The addiction rate is sky high. It's cheap to do it. Overdoses are... I think it was something that we have a 9/11 every two months for now with overdose deaths, 3000 every two months, something like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anyway, look the reason that this heroin business and the hard drug business is rising is twofold. Number one, hopelessness. Many Americans who are in the drug world feel hopeless so they don't care whether they destroy themselves or not. Anybody putting a needle in their arm now with heroin and this Fentanyl and all that, come on. You know the danger, you know you could die, you're doing it anyway.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the second one is compulsion. The compulsion thing is rising. I think it has to do with the Internet. People are addicted to the Internet. There's immediate gratification. They become compulsive. They're seeking thrills. I got to have my thrill, got to have it, got to have it, got to have it. Ok.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is just me. My observations. OK. But this epidemic is being fueled by personal weakness. That's what it's being fueled by. Now how to combat it? A number of different ways you can do it. You know, you can increase the penalties for people who sell heroin, Fentanyl, and really, really hammer them hard, and then you can give rehab. You know, if somebody wants it they should be able to get it. You know, no matter what their circumstance is. Take them off the street.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Forced rehab I'm for. Judges, you know, get these criminals in there, they're addicted, you've got to go to rehab for 22 months, that's what they do in Singapore. Ok, there is no addicts, very few addicts on the streets of Singapore because they're all in rehab, forced rehab. So, there's no market. Why are you going to import heroin into Singapore? There's nobody to buy it. So, we'll do it in Malaysia right over the causeway. I saw that firsthand when I was out there. Malaysia, you know, even though it's a Muslim society, there's heroin all over the place. You go over the causeway, drive over the causeway, you can't find it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number one, they'll hang you if you're caught selling it. And number two, there's nobody to buy it. It's simplistic, I know. Can't do that here. Singapore is a small island, but there are elements of what they do that we can take.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now segue into Colorado where now they're having an amazing problem with taking the legalized marijuana in Colorado and shipping it out to Nebraska and Kansas and surrounding states. Police in Denver seized two tons of cannabis from dozens of homes and warehouses in Denver tangled into a scheme were fathers and sons, families trafficking, and several former professional football players. OK so this is a big black market developing in states like Washington, Colorado, Oregon. OK. Because they can make tons of money taking the legal pot, wrapping it up and sending it or shipping it to states where it isn't legal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sixty-five million Americans live in states right now we're pot is legal. You know some of them are going to send that out and make money from it, and whether it gets in the hands of 12-year-olds, they don't care. They don't care. And this drug thing. I mean, you know they say marijuana is not a gateway drug. That's a lie. You ask any drug counselor. You start in that drug world, not everybody progresses, but many do, particularly the younger you get them, the more liable they are to progress into the hard drugs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, this I knew was going to happen along with the rise in DUIs, because people are stoned out of their minds. This is potent pot. And all of that unintended consequence that comes along with that, danger on the road increased.... Oh yeah, but you have alcohol, it isn't fair if you don't have marijuana...&nbsp;</p>
<p>Come on. Public safety, alright. You drink a beer, you're not drunk. You drink a glass of wine, you're not drunk. You smoke a marijuana cigarette with THC in it, powerful, you're stoned. Got it? Got the difference?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's go to the mail. Maybe I'll calm down a little bit here. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thomas Bolcar, Point Pleasant, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, time to get out of your Goldberg, Miller, Beck bubble. Quit playing. Get off your island. Skip The Hamptons for a few days. You need to find out what people are really saying about the president. Last chance, you're losing it. Congress is the target now. 2018 elections are going to be a bloodbath for them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Look, Tom, you and I have a disagreement. I said that the appointment of General John Kelly is the president's last chance to tamp down the chaos. If Kelly were to quit, resign, it's going to be over. Now, here's what I base my analysis on, not emotion, which I think may be a little bit of your analysis, but on the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which is very friendly to Donald Trump. He cites it often. Right now, 39 percent approval for the president. 61 percent disapproval. That's a friendly poll, OK. It comes out every day. Donald Trump&rsquo;s poll numbers are going down. Kelly was a smart move, but he's got to listen, the president has got to listen to the general and the chaos has got to stop, period.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kenneth Gstohl, St. Augustine, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Great analogy with the addition of General Kelly by President Trump, Bill. If Kelly is forced out by Trump for any reason, his presidency will be over. As a Trump supporter, I sincerely hope the right changes will take place in the White House. Nice to hear and watch you report the truth, Bill.</p>
<p>Well, thank you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Your opinion and mine coincide. I'm not saying that people who disagree with us are necessarily wrong. I mean, but I believe that Donald Trump did a very smart thing, courageous thing, because he gave General Kelly a lot of power over him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if it doesn't work out it's going to spiral into all areas of his presidency.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Michael, Reynoldsburg, Ohio on the message board.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"O'Reilly, you're wrong in your assertion that the appointment of General Kelly signals a change in the Trump administration. I believe Trump brought in Kelly to plug the leaks, but he will continue his controversial tweets on every issue and continue to shoot himself in the foot on a regular basis.</p>
<p>You know, look, nobody can predict that. But he brings in a guy like Kelly and Kelly is going to plug the leaks. But that's what Scaramucci said he was going to do. But Kelly, you know, he's going to try to do that. No doubt. But this is more than an appointment. This is a gauntlet. And the president, whether he listens to Kelly or not, we'll see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bobby, Beverly Hills, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Do you think that General Kelly can pull the party vote on key issues and finally repeal Obamacare. I'm really hurting here with the high medical insurance premiums and I have absolutely had enough of the chaos."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, Bobby, everybody is in your boat that works. There is a lot of uncertainty in health care. Kelly will be a help in framing the message, the presidential message. Obviously, Congress has got to do it. But Kelly will be a help in framing a discipline message.&nbsp;</p>
<p>William, Santa Ana, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, great podcast. I hope you're right that Trump has signaled he's making a change by appointing Kelly as chief of staff. I believe Trump wants to change but I don't know if he has the discipline."&nbsp;</p>
<p>We'll find out.</p>
<p>Pat, Springfield, Missouri.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, thank you for speaking your mind on John McCain's vote on health care, which can't help but be taken as an anti-Trump vote. I respect his and Lindsey Graham's service to our country but I'm sick of their high-minded criticism of Trump. It's going to be the ruination of the GOP."</p>
<p>OK. You know, we said that Senator McCain's vote against reforming Obamacare was personal. I believe that's true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sally, Trinity, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, honestly it's pronounced Keen-Wa."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think I said Kin-Oh-wuh yesterday. Quinoa.</p>
<p>"Not old school, but good nonetheless. I love the book Old School and I have loved all your books. I've ordered a signed copy of Killing England. I can't wait to read it. I will see you in Tampa on September 23rd. Thanks, Bill."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you, Sally, that's very nice of you. I was going to bring in a galley, I'll do it tomorrow because it's so busy here, of Killing England, out September 19th.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you order it now you'll get it first. Re-up your Premium Membership, you get it free. And if you buy Killing England, preorder it, you get 50 percent off any of the other killing books, which is good if you haven't read any because it'll get you in the frame of mind for Killing England, which is the brutal story of our independence, which no spin, you'll learn about Washington and Franklin and Jefferson as you never have.</p>
<p>Thank you, Sally, for Quinoa.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sarah Fujimoto.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"My husband and I are coming to see you and Miller in Vegas in December."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That would be at Caesar's Palace, December 15th, Sally. Alright.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"VIP seats sold out. Sad we don't get to shake your hand."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm really sorry too. VIP seats always go fast. There's only like 250 seats left for Caesar's Palace if you want to see us in Vegas. And the next night, December 16th, we'll be in Anaheim, VIP seats there sold out. But you can see us there, and pretty good seats available so check it out. We'll link you right to the box office on BillOReilly.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lourdes Ibarra, Sacramento, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I'm currently listening to Killing the Rising Sun on audible. What a book. I have made it required reading for my kids."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you, Lourdes, and your children will thank you. Killing the Rising Sun definitely has to be read.</p>
<p>Debora Lyman, Sioux City, Iowa.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Just want to tell you, Bill, your book Killing the Rising Sun is overwhelmingly awesome. I could not stop once I started. If only this book was in my history class."&nbsp;</p>
<p>All the killing books are like that. So we're looking forward to the launch of Killing England. I'm going to show you the galley tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anne O'Shea, Staten Island.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I can't even tell you how confused I am about what's going on, Bill. Thank god I can get my fix with the BillOReilly.com podcast to calm me down."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Good. That's why we're here. Perspective, perspective, perspective.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now if you want to reach me, it's Bill@BillOReilly.com or the message boards. And if you want to follow us on Twitter, always amusing, @billoreilly.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks for being Premium Members, see you again tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-08-01T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Gen. Kelly & Scaramucci; Interview with Bernie GoldbergBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Gen.-Kelly--Scaramucci;-Interview-with-Bernie-Goldberg/135132290163827685.html2017-07-31T23:00:00Z2017-07-31T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, July 31st 2017.</p>
<p>Boy am I glad you're here today because this day is huge for America and for you. You know, there's a lot of things happening in the White House, we're going to go right through them methodically, and we're going to talk to our pal Bernie Goldberg about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because you're not going to... I hate to say this, I hate to be cynical, but you're not going to get the truth, certainly not on television news, and depending on what publications you read or internet you read, very tough, but we'll tell you the truth tonight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>First of all, Anthony Scaramucci out as communications director for the White House. And the reason he's out is because the new Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, told the president you know, you can't have a bomb thrower like this and run a disciplined White House, which is what Kelly was brought in to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But here's the headline: this is Donald Trump's last chance, his last chance to right his administration so that they can go forward and enact laws and policies that are good for you.</p>
<p>It's his last chance. Kelly was a smart hire. All right, tough guy, combat vet, lost his son in Afghanistan. Taliban killed his son. Patriot, no nonsense. All right. This isn't Reince Priebus. This isn't Scaramucci. This isn't the other spinners that Trump has going out for him. This is a guy that A, knows how to run an operation, ok, and B, is not going to handle any chaos.</p>
<p>So, I think, and this is speculation, but it's educated speculation, because I talk to a lot of people about these things. I believe that Kelly told Trump, I'll take the job as chief of staff but you have to do the following, and Scaramucci was one of the following.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The reason Scaramucci is out is because of the New Yorker thing, which I told you last week it was inexplicable. Why would you talk to the New Yorker magazine about anything when they hate you? OK. And the guy couldn't wait, the writer, Liza, I believe his name is, couldn't wait to get on CNN. I mean, he's like jumping through the window to get on there and kill Scaramucci, who apparently said all kinds of obscene things in trying to make his points.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, this is the White House we're talking about. We're not Polyaenus here, we know how people talk. We know how people talk behind the scenes, but in public there's got to be certain decorum.</p>
<p>All right, so General Kelly is the guy who's now calling the shots. This is important not only for the reorganization of the White House, if you're a Trump fan. If you're not a Trump and you want to see him fail, I mean, Kelly's appointment is bad news. But it's important for the country because it sends a signal for the first time that Donald Trump may be listening to Kelly, may be listening to someone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think Kelly would have taken that job if Trump didn't assure him that he'd be listened to and Scaramucci is the first, this is the first example of that. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what we have here is, just to recap, another blow to the Trump White House in the sense that everybody's getting their heads cut off. But this may be the turnaround point. And if it isn't, it's the last chance.</p>
<p>And believe me, when your own party turns against you, which the Republican Party would do if the president fired Jeff Sessions, when your own party turns against you, it's over. Remember, Bill Clinton's party never turned against him. Even after Lewinsky and everything else Democrats stayed in his fold. If Trump loses the GOP, he sits there for three years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, a few other things and then I want to get this conversation going about where we go with President Trump and how the press is going to handle it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sheriff Joe Arpaio found guilty of criminal contempt. He's the sheriff of Maricopa County, that's Phoenix. He was ordered by judges not to have his deputies round up illegal aliens saying that was a federal job not a local job. Arpaio allegedly didn't stop his deputies from doing that. He went to court. He was found guilty of criminal contempt. He's a former sheriff there. I don't think he's going to get any jail time, maybe he'll get a fine. He'll appeal. So it will take forever but he's been found guilty.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In Portland, and one of the most outrageous things I've ever seen, I'm going to read it to you because I don't want to get this wrong. It's so bad. And this goes to Kate's Law and tomorrow we're going to have a big thing on Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, so a guy, an illegal alien named Sergio Jose Martinez, Mexican national, is in custody right now. $2 million bail because he brutalized two women, one of them 65 years old.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He has been deported 20 times. Two zero. 20 times. Multnomah County, Portland, is a sanctuary county. Last December, the feds asked Multnomah County to hold Martinez, a long rap sheet, he's 31 years old, hold him in jail so they could go and take him. Multnomah County didn't hold him, let them go.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And now he's attacked, allegedly, these two women. Now the most interesting part of this story is two of them. Two interesting parts. One, Kate's Law is hung up in the Senate. Tomorrow we'll find out if they're going to vote on it or when for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And number two, the reaction in Portland, Oregon from the media and everybody else is like you know, we let them out but we're not really sorry.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the poor women, they can't sue the city and the county. I mean, they could and I hope they try. But you know, the Steinle family tried to sue San Francisco County and they lost. Although their federal lawsuit is going forward. But come on, I mean how many times is this stuff going to have to happen?</p>
<p>If Kate's Law were in effect, this guy, Martinez, would be in prison, federal prison right now. If they knew where he was, the locals knew where he was, just pick him up, charge him right there. You defied deportation, the bills says three times and you get up to 10 years in federal prison. I wouldn't have given it three times, one time, but the House approved Kate's Law and now it sits in the Senate. So tomorrow we're going to have a big thing on this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The House has also approved 1.6 billion dollars for the wall on the southern border. So that money is approved, and the Senate will approve it, and it will cover 32 miles of border fence in Texas, 28 miles of wall in the Rio Grande Valley, and 14 miles of replacement fence in San Diego. So you can see, 1.6 billion and you're getting... let me do the math here real fast... about 75 miles worth of border fence. But at least it's going.</p>
<p>In Chicago over the weekend, we're going to do this every Monday, a four-year old boy shot along with 28 other people.</p>
<p>Violence across the Windy City left two people dead, more than a dozen others wounded, two dozen others. Twenty-eight. And a boy was wounded in a shoot out that left a woman dead. OK. All right. You want racism in America? That's racism in America as we've discussed. We'll give you the score just like the Cubs and the White Sox every Monday. And nobody does anything about it.</p>
<p>OK. I wrote a column today in <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/344575-opinion-bill-oreilly-a-media-lynch-mob-is-trying-to-take-down-trump" target="_blank">TheHill.com</a>. And that's the newspaper that goes to all the pinheads serving in Congress and all the politicians alright. That's why I write the column because I'm talking to them. But I want you to read it, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-A-Media-Lynch-Mob-is-Trying-to-Take-Down-Trump/520739824730147568.html" target="_blank">it's on BillOReilly.com</a>. I forced Bernie Goldberg to read it, he's in North Carolina someplace, he joins us now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>And we'll read a lot of your mail, remember Kate's Law tomorrow. An update on the Portland, Oregon atrocity out there. We're going to do a lot of stuff tomorrow. Let's get to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tanya in Palo Alto.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>OK, Tanya, Palo Alto, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I was also of the opinion, Bill, that we are better off with Trump than with Hillary Clinton. But lately I'm not sure. His constant infighting and incompetence is embarrassing. I understand the media is out to destroy him but much of it is self-inflicted and nothing is getting done.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So today, Tanya, you have some hope if you're a Trump supporter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lee, Louisa, Kentucky.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There's a reason President Trump can't talk to Attorney General Sessions in private. Look at what they say about Trump trying to pressure Sessions, there could be tapes of the conversation, there could be leaks about the conversation. People will spin it just like they did Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. That that's an excellent point, Lee. If he had a private meeting with Sessions, anything could be leaked. There wouldn't be any tapes of it, but you know, and it would be, are you threatening him? Are you doing anything? And that's right. That's a very, very good point.</p>
<p>John Arnold, Santa Ana, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I'm an evangelical, I voted for Trump. Deeply disgusted with Scaramucci's filthy rant and conservatives on Fox who say he's colorful and passionate. Rather, it was hateful.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. And that's why Anthony Scaramucci isn't there. Now, I hope Anthony... If I were the president, I'd give him some economic stuff. He's a good economist, because again, he made the mistake. But you're entitled to make mistakes in this country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Charlotte Perkins, Greensboro, North Carolina.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill, love the podcast and your books, but please take off your rose-colored glasses. If you give a special prosecutor unlimited time, funds, and personnel, he'll find something. Can you spell Scooter Libby?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK look, the difference between Scooter Libby, which nobody knew what was going on there at all. The Valerie Plame thing, nobody knew anything about it. So, Charlotte, you have people who want to overthrow the election. They don't like Trump. They feel Trump's illegitimate, they want to overthrow the election. That's what this Russia bit is all about. In order for anything to happen on that front, Mueller, the special investigator, has to come up with stuff that you, Charlotte, say wow, that should not have happened. You have to say that, the rest of it's going to walk. There's no comparison because this is an attempt to overthrow the election. And if it's going to be overthrown you better have a headline.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jim from Moody, Texas says:&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Who says we in America have to provide medical insurance to everyone? I worked 40 years in the private sector and paid my insurance for 40 years. You cannot pay for it, then I just don't know what happened before Obamacare.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The emergency rooms. That's what happened. And there is a safety net philosophy in this country that poor children, for example, of irresponsible, derelict, or unfortunate parents, just can't let them go without health insurance. That's a safety net. I think there is a way to do this in a sane, fair way. But our pinheads on Capitol Hill can't figure it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Greg, Cape Coral, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill, I can't tell you how much I like the interaction between you and Glenn Beck. Gives me a much-needed laugh and always some real perspective on the news.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>We talk with Beck every Friday on his radio program. That chat is posted on BillOReilly.com for everybody to see and I'm glad you like it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Leona Salazar, Bainbridge, Washington.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Just finished Old School and loved it. I'm definitely old school. But I hope I'm not disqualified because I know what Quinoa is and eat kale almost every day.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I thought I turned off this... see this is the problem with this machine. I thought I turned it off. I hit this button on the side and you know, nothing happened. There it goes. I thought I did that. And then it rings and interrupts. I am so bad with these things.</p>
<p>Alright. Get back to Leona. Quinoa and kale. Look, you're old school if you have an old school heart and an old school head. Your diet doesn't really matter. But Feirstein and I, in Old School: Life in the Sane Lane, felt the need to make fun of people obsessed with quinoa and kale.</p>
<p>Susan Kemnitz, Whittier, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill, I live in California and the state wants to separate itself from the country. I don't know what to do.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. California can't separate. It has to be with us for the long run. I don't know if that's a good thing because it's pretty crazy out there in Sacramento. But don't worry.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Word of the Day, we're bringing it back.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Do not be a BLOOTER. That's a Scottish word. A lot of dictionaries don't have it but it's a great word. Don't be a blooter when writing or doing anything else.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have... this is August, tomorrow starts August. We'll be here most of the time. We're going to do some audio work and we have a very big surprise for you a week from Wednesday. I'm not going to tell you what it is or it wouldn't be a surprise, but it will be... you'll like it, I hope you like it. And we get a lot of good things going on.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Here it is, again, it starts ringing and ringing and ringing. I turned it off but it doesn't work. See I don't believe these machines are under my control or your control. I think that they have separate intelligence and this machine is doing this to give me a hard time. That's what I believe.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-31T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Healthcare Chaos, Hillary's New Book, and Progressive AttacksBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Healthcare-Chaos-Hillarys-New-Book-and-Progressive-Attacks/399991318118318866.html2017-07-27T23:00:00Z2017-07-27T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for this Thursday July 27, 2017.</p>
<p>A lot of stuff going on today. And you&rsquo;ve got to stay with me here because there's a pattern of behavior emerging that's going to affect your life and you should know about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The first thing is this health care chaos in the Senate. It is simply embarrassing for the nation. Yes, checks and balances. Yes, we want a variety of opinions. But what we have here is political gamesmanship and there are certain Republican senators like Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, who the Wall Street Journal just scorches today and I don't think she'll be reelected, who just basically are hypocrites and they're afraid to cut back entitlement spending because they are afraid they're going to lose. Well Ms. Murkowski is making a huge mistake because she's going to lose for not cooperating at all on the repeal of Obamacare.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the skinny bill would just knock out the mandates that businesses with 50 employees would have to buy insurance, that individuals have to buy insurance, and knock this tax off the medical devices thing which everybody hates. But who knows. Who knows. I mean McConnell is running around trying to get the votes but everybody's got objections to something or the other or this and that. It is devastating to me as an American citizen, not as a journalist, to watch how dishonest this whole process is. Who's looking out for you? Everybody knows Obamacare isn't the answer to our health care problem in this country. Everybody knows that insurance companies don't want any part of it. Doctors don't want any part of it. Many, many, many millions of working class people are paying far too much for health insurance because others are being supplemented.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Medicaid spending is out of control. The Obama administration had no limits at all. Limits have to be imposed. Everybody knows this. But because they want to buy votes with entitlements like Medicaid - they being the Democratic Party and some Republicans - nothing gets done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look I'm going to wait. I'm not going to bore you with the minutia of this. If you're interested all the websites have it and you can just read it. But the bottom line on it is it's disgraceful what is happening here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this transgendered military thing is another ruse.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are very few people in the armed forces of the United States who are changing their gender. I mean you can probably count on two hands, if that. So President Trump understands that his base doesn't want transgendered people fighting and they don't want to pay for their operations, which are extremely expensive and the cost of this has become an issue for Congress people who have to fund the border wall and stuff like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Trump threw 'em this in a tweet. All right. No transgendered people in the military. He got the conservative crew's attention by doing that and he's doing it for political reasons. Trump doesn't care about transgendered people. I mean I think he's genuinely outraged, as I am, that my tax dollars have to go to their operations. It's a personal decision and we shouldn't have tax dollars involved with this at all, anywhere, not just in a military. It shouldn't be happening. So I think the president knows that and he seized upon it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But as far as the very, very few transgendered people in the military, the courts are going to throw that right out. You can't be discriminatory. If gays are allowed then you got to allow transgenders. And that's just it. So the Pentagon today came out and said whoa whoa whoa whoa we just have a tweet, we don't have an executive order by the Commander in Chief, so the transgender situation that we have now is going to remain the same. This is from the Pentagon. Whether Trump signs an executive order or not I don't know. I don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Of course there's the outrage in the progressive precincts and I'll tell you about that in a moment. But this Chelsea Manning, Bradley Manning thing, where the army did pay for her transformation from a man to a woman, it should never have happened. Particularly because she's a traitor and she was in Leavenworth. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now as soon as you get into gays, transgenders, any alternative lifestyles, any minorities at all - Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, whatever - then the progressive machine cranks up. Because there is a coalition that the progressives put together in America, which was a smart thing for them to do because it brings pressure on non-progressives who may disagree with certain programs designed to help minorities.</p>
<p>So the progressives put together a coalition and the most important member of that coalition is the press. They are *- most of them in the national media - members of the progressive coalition. And then the second most important group are African-Americans and the third are Hispanic Americans and the fourth are gays and the fifth are Muslims or whatever. So it's a minority driven coalition. You put all these people together and you have a majority. But more importantly you have a megaphone in which to attack people who disagree with the progressive philosophy as bigots, haters, whatever. That's what this is all about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again there are very few transgendered people and any commonsense person knows that tax dollars shouldn't be going to pay for their surgeries or their drugs. It's a personal decision. You want a change from man or woman or vice versa, you&rsquo;ve got to pay the freight, not me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So this progressive coalition has now risen to the point where it's unbelievably funded by people like George Soros, we've mentioned that. Again I will mention Sharyl Attkinson's book - which did make the best seller list right behind Legends and Lies the Civil War - called 'The Smear'. And Sharyl runs down the progressive coalition and how they use their power and their money - their donated money - to destroy people. Absolutely destroy them. So if you go up against that crew you're going to get personal attacks all day long. Trumped up stuff, pardon the pun, attack after attack after attack after attack. Until they marginalize you as a human being. That's what is happening.</p>
<p>You could see it last night. This is where all of indignation from CNN and MSNBC - both members of the progressive coalition. Fox, they&rsquo;ve got so many problems ratings wise now I don't know what they're doing. But it was there, on Fox, wasn't a lot, of little discussion about it. But it was pretty good. I thought Fox, you know, had perspective on both sides. The other two condemn, condemn, condemn, condemn. All right. So it's important for you, who are seeking the truth - you would not be watching this podcast or be members of BillOReilly.com - if you weren't. You're seeking the truth. You want information. You&rsquo;ve got to know that this is all very well organized. From the transgendered to the Muslim oppression - that doesn't exist in this country by the way - to African-Americans and the way they are treated by the federal government, to Hispanic Americans - we'll get to that in a moment with some California stuff - it's all very well organized and thought out. And the demonization that takes place if you are a conservative or a non-progressive is off the chart now. And they are getting away with it because nobody is calling them out on it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. I wrote a book called Culture Warrior years and years ago where I predicted this would happen because I saw the money flow. I saw the amazing amount of money going into these organizations. There's an organization called Color of Change, which demonstrated outside of Fox against me on a number of occasions, which is absolutely funded and big money and they pay their people. And you know, it's really unbelievable.</p>
<p>All right the California thing I was mentioning is there are now, according to the state of California, more than a million driver's licenses - either issued or pending - to illegal aliens in the Golden State. There was a law passed - AB 60 - that says if you're an illegal alien and you apply for a driver's license and pass tests you can get one. Now a problem with this is quasi legalization of people who are here illegally. So California says, &lsquo;well we don't really care whether you snuck in across the border or overstayed a visa, you're here in our state and we are going to let you drive.&rsquo; There are reasons they do it - insurance, you know, that kind of thing. I got it. But the overall reason that this AB 60 was passed was to legalize illegal undocumented aliens. That's what it was passed for.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean they're not carving out a special status or a temporary situation, they are saying 'here is a driver's license' and with a driver's license you can get all kinds of things, including Social Security number. All right. So we know what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now there was a woman in San Diego and I don't want hell to rain down on her. Her name was published, you can find it. She was stopped at a border patrol check and refused to answer questions whether she was an American citizen or provide any documentation that she was. And she says, 'well because I look a certain way' - she's Hispanic - 'I'm stopped all the time and asked if I'm an American citizen and it's not fair'. OK it isn't unfair that you're stopped and asked if you're American citizen. Apparently, she is. It's not fair. But for the greater good of the country because we have such an overwhelming problem with people in this country illegally why don't you do your part and cooperate? All you have to do is tell a border patrol agent at the checkpoint 'yes I'm an American citizen and here is my I.D.'. And they just run it through if they want to do that or they probably just let them go. But she didn't want to do it. You wanted to be a big deal out of it. You know I say 'look lady you're living in a country OK. You know the immigration authorities are up against millions of people here illegally and they're just trying to stop it. And you're not going to cooperate then? What kind of American are you? What kind of citizen are you. So that's my take on it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As you know I have a book coming out in September called Killing England about the Revolutionary War. The brutal - people don't know how brutal it was - concentrating on Washington and Franklin and Jefferson. The war through their eyes. But it's packed with action. And at the same time Hillary Clinton's got a book coming out. So now we're getting dribs and drabs of what that book is going to be. Explaining how she lost to Donald Trump. I don't care that Hillary Clinton's book is coming out when mine is. I've competed against her before. We will see the best book when I'll be up against her on the best seller lists. But it's leaking out that she's going to raise the sexist card. That one of the reasons she lost was because of sexism and she was a woman.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm going to be very offended if that happens because the truth is that Hillary Clinton received amazingly favorable press coverage most of the time. Now when she was involved the e-mail scandal and things like that the press had to report the facts of the situation. But generally speaking Hillary Clinton was given a total pass in that election and Trump was a guy who was hammered.</p>
<p>So if Hillary Clinton is going to say I lost because of sexism, you know, enough, enough, really stop. And if that's a main theme it's not true. And it just ruins any credibility she may have had in the past.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I haven't been a Hillary Clinton basher or somebody who was particularly anti Hillary Clinton but over the past two years or so I've changed. No matter what controversies Donald Trump is engendering I think we're much better off as a country that he's in the office and not Hillary Clinton. I think she's a corrupt woman. I really do. I'm not going to buy her book. If somebody sends it to me I'll look at portions of it. But if she's going to play the sexism card I'm not going to do it. All right.</p>
<p>Our pal Dennis Miller, we talked politics with him yesterday and you can access that if you missed it is on the website. Miller did Monday Night Football and now there's a study that says that football players, not just in the National Football League but college players as well, are getting so many head injuries that it's become a national problem. So I talked with Miller about that and what he's doing for leisure this summer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Roll it.</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Miller will be back with us next week I hope.</p>
<p>And now let's go to the mail.</p>
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<p>Stephen Holz, Evansville, Indiana.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill I voted for Trump and have been supportive since his inauguration but I am beginning to tire of the endless self-inflicted wounds. Obviously he loves chaos. I do not.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you read my <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/President-Trump-Should-Take-a-Vacation/-938537956050118156.html">Message of the Day</a> on the website, Stephen that's exactly what I'm saying. People are getting tired, even Trump supporters. The president needs to pull back from the controversy for a while. I'm not saying you should stop defending himself but he has to pull back.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Greg Pearson, Minnesota.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;What do you think about the theory that Trump is playing the media and the Democrats with the whole Sessions situation? They have now gone from trying to destroy Sessions to defending him.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>I pointed that out yesterday, that Sessions, who the progressive media hates, is now a victim. I don't do theories here so I can't answer that. I just don't do that. We have enough facts that we can do a newscast easily. We have to do theories.</p>
<p>Michael in Philadelphia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, I love the podcast. However I disagree with you about the 2018 elections if the Republicans do not move ahead with the president's agenda. I would hope that people would not turn back to a party that's doing everything in their power to stop President Trump."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's the problem. If the administration cannot get something done on health care and tax cuts many of their supporters just won't vote.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not that they're going to turn back to the Democrats - pull the lever for the progressives, they're just not going to show up. So what happened to Hillary Clinton - that's why she lost, a lot of Democrats didn't like her didn't show up, they didn't vote for Trump - they just didn't go. That's the danger.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jean of Virginia.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I've been a Republican for 40 years but watching this group of senators today has been painful. I'm done. Do they not realize the election 2018 is coming? How can they ignore the consequences of not getting anything done?"</p>
<p>Well that's where we are. Republican Party simply is not coalescing. And if they can't get the tax cuts done, I mean, my God, it's shocking that this health care thing is so out of control.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Miriam Haynes, Phoenix, Arizona.</p>
<p>A little warm down there is time of year Miriam. I hope you're in air conditioning.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Since when does the military cover any surgery that is elective? Do they also pay for facelifts?"</p>
<p>No they don't. But you know, President Obama specifically ordered that transgendered people can get their medicine and some surgeries paid for by the military. His presidential order.</p>
<p>Bruce, Jamestown, Tennessee.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I agree with the transgender ban. Some will join the military just to have the costs the operations paid for by the American taxpayer. No one is paying for my life choice decisions. Why should we pay for the non-medically necessary decisions?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know that's obviously why I wanted to read your letter to get on the record. That's obviously what it's all about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dorothy in South San Francisco, California.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill you keep saying that Mueller has to come up with facts. Sorry but I believe that his facts will be whatever he says are facts.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Can't happen. In the final report on the Russian collusion allegations Mr. Mueller has to present, in stone, evidence to you as an American to justify his salary and his power.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now you may remember to go back to Watergate. The thing that sunk Richard Nixon with the tapes, the gap in the tapes and what he said on the tapes. That's what sank him. That's a fact. That was evidence. If there is no evidence that the Trump administration - on a general basis - colluded with the Russians, it's over. The thing about Mueller and a special investigator is they have to present the evidence so you can see it. So that's why I just say let it play out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Leslie in Ontario Canada.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Just finish Old School, fantastic book Bill. The way we were in the 50s and 60s, have never heard it expressed better.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you. Very kind of you Leslie.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"The values and culture we were raised in is long gone today. Life was easier then. Definitive parameters. Loved all your stories."&nbsp;</p>
<p>The stories are fun to write and I'm glad you got a kick out of them. Life was easier in the 50s and 60s for white people. But not for blacks. So we always have to keep that in mind, that some of the changes that have come are good. Giving everybody the equal opportunity to pursue happiness, both in the United States and Canada, because Canada's changed as well. But on a social - front with respect for authority and the way people live - no mass use of drugs, those kinds of things, life was better back then.</p>
<p>Mary, New York, here on Long Island.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Listened to the podcast. I was disappointed you didn't mention the Debbie Wasserman Schultz aide story of his arrest. It was not covered by any of the mainstream media stations. I thought for sure you would have given us the true story of what happened, Bill."</p>
<p>Mary, I don't know the true story. It's an arrest. A guy who was working for former Congresswoman Schultz and in the Democratic hierarchy was arrested at Dulles Airport in Virginia trying to get out of here. He was going to Qatar. Now the arrest was for some kind of fraud that he allegedly committed. I don't know any more than that. Nobody does. So I'm mentioning it now but remember the stories got to be prioritized. The cables can speculate, I just don't do it here. I just don't do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nancy and Bruce Berlet, Glastonbury, Connecticut.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>My part is always different Nancy, my part in the Miller/O'Reilly shows is always different because I'm talking about what happens that week, pretty much, in my presentation. I've got some stories, one about The View that I tell because they are funny and cute, but my main presentation is always different.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the Q&amp;A that Miller and O'Reilly take questions from the audience, we answer them and it is always different too because we never know what those questions are going to be.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Miller does a classic stand-up routine for about a half hour. Some of his lines he'll use. But again he always injects new stuff so that's all I can tell you. We're always being honest about the shows.</p>
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<p>Tomorrow, Friday, I'll be with them. Every Friday 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on his radio program and then we post it here.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-27T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Jeff Sessions, Transgender Military Ban and ObamacareBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Jeff-Sessions-Transgender-Military-Ban-and-Obamacare/-49733945577137617.html2017-07-26T23:00:00Z2017-07-26T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 26, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I had to watch today the senate and the healthcare, painful. I&rsquo;ll get to that in a moment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the bigger and more important story in the Attorney General of the Unite States, Jeff Session.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It would be foolish for President Trump to fire Mr. Sessions on a number of levels. Ok?&nbsp;</p>
<p>If the president does that I don&rsquo;t know whether he can recover in the senate. That means that Republican senators will turn against the President. Already Democratic senators are against him. Now Republican senators will turn against him. They like Sessions, the Republicans do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They don&rsquo;t believe that this is a legitimate way to go about handling the attorney general. I know that for a fact. So if President Trump fires Sessions, he&rsquo;s going to lose his support in the senate across the board. It&rsquo;s a disaster. Just for that reason, d&eacute;tente should happen between Trump and Sessions.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, two things happened today that indicate that might be going that way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number one, the attorney general said he will investigate the leaks coming out of the federal government that damage President Trump. So that is reassuring to Mr. Trump I hope.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number two, Sessions is keeping up the pressure on Sanctuary cities by saying that we are going to cut off all department of justice aid to you if deny ICE agents access to illegal aliens in your prisons or jails. Ok.</p>
<p>Sessions has been pretty good on this issue by telling Sanctuary cites that we are not going to tolerate anarchy. And if you do that you pay a price.</p>
<p>So that happened today. But mid-day the President tweeted again his disenchant with Sessions. I am telling you this is not a good thing for the country. I am trying to rise above party politics and look out of the entire nation. This is not good. There should be d&eacute;tente.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the question of Hillary Clinton. It&rsquo;s a two-pronged issue. President Trump is angry and frustrated that his is being investigated for Russian collusion. We all know that. He says the Clinton people did ten times worse with Russia yet nobody is looking into that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok. Legitimate point. For everybody who is fair-minded. And because the Clinton Foundation operates currently, it&rsquo;s an ongoing concern, there is justification to look at that foundation visa vie the Russians. Right?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mueller could do that. And certainly, Attorney General Sessions could do it and should do. Now on the emails, Benghazi, all that other stuff, no. It has already been investigated. I didn&rsquo;t think the investigations were very good. But when Donald Trump took office he said I&rsquo;m not going to go back and do that. I&rsquo;m going to be magnanimous. He should hold to that. So that goes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the foundation, which I&rsquo;ve always felt was a con, because I run a charitable foundation, I know how it works. The Clinton were using that foundation to travel all over the world to cut deals that enrich themselves and to gain political currency. There&rsquo;s no doubt about it. That should be investigated by Attorney General Sessions.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think Sessions and Trump would have a meeting. Sessions would say &lsquo;I&rsquo;m going to look into the foundation. The Russia thing I can&rsquo;t help you with.&rdquo; Because he was wright to recuse himself, Sessions. Because he was involved with the campaign and he did have some discussions with Russians.&nbsp; That was right for him to get out of there. To avoid the impropriety appearance. So I&rsquo;m going to predict that Trump is not going to fire Sessions. But I could be very wrong on that. I don&rsquo;t have any inside info. I&rsquo;m just saying if he does, he&rsquo;s got to know it&rsquo;s going to be a disaster. Scaramucci has got to be telling him. I assume he&rsquo;s listening to Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications guy. He&rsquo;s got to be telling him don&rsquo;t do that. All right.</p>
<p>Ok, healthcare. It&rsquo;s a ruse. Nothing&rsquo;s going to happen. The Republican party cannot get it together. Not going to happen.</p>
<p>Now maybe in the next session or something like that. But I&rsquo;m telling you its chaos. Absolute chaos.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, they&rsquo;ll keep talking, they&rsquo;ll keep doing, but Obamacare is going to be there for the foreseeable future.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, on that note, Senator John McCain, a hero, he comes back last night after his brain operation, he had a scar on his face, to break the tie and continue the debate on healthcare. A good thing. So he is frustrated that the two parties are never working together. They don&rsquo;t work together. They hate each other so much they won&rsquo;t together on healthcare or anything else.</p>
<p>And he blames some of the on pundits like me, who have influence. And he has a very provocative soundbite.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Roll it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>SOUNDBITE &ndash; SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: I&nbsp;hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again, and by so doing, better serve the people who elected us. Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio, television and the internet. To hell with them. They don&rsquo;t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that was a pretty provocative soundbite by Senator John McCain last night trying to convince politicians to knock it off as far as what the so-called experts think and vote in favor of the people.</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s bring in a guy who does radio and television, Dennis Miller.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))</p>
<p>So there you have Dennis Miller.</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s get on to the other stories of interest today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump is banning transgender people from any military service.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s the tweet, quote:&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok so what&rsquo;s going to happen here is there is going to be a court fight. I don&rsquo;t think you can ban transgender people from the military so I think the courts will rule you can&rsquo;t do that. But you can, within the military, assign transgenders to non-combat roles. So that&rsquo;s how it&rsquo;s going to come down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What Trump is also objecting to is President Obama ordered, if you can believe it - because this is so insane I can&rsquo;t even express it - that you and me and every other American pay for transgender operations while they are in the military.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what&rsquo;s his name? The guy who was convicted to espionage, the name escapes me at the moment, he had his whole transformation from man to woman paid for by the U.S. government.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I should remember but I&rsquo;m old and I don&rsquo;t. But that&rsquo;s ok. Say that again? They are telling me in my ear. Chelsea Manning. Used to be Bradley Manning. Now is Chelsea.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we shouldn&rsquo;t have to pay for this. That&rsquo;s a personal decision and we shouldn&rsquo;t have to pay for it. But in the end transgender individuals, when the court mandates, will be able to serve but they&rsquo;ll be assigned to whatever their superiors believe they should be.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right now. Here is a story that caught my eye that you&rsquo;re not going to hear anyplace else.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is in California. 37 percent of all households in California, the nation&rsquo;s largest state, have no cash in the bank. None. They&rsquo;re living pay check to pay check or welfare check to welfare check. &nbsp;They don&rsquo;t have any money. So if anything happens where they have a debate or whatever they can&rsquo;t pay it. Many of these people run up a big credit card debt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Less than half of California&rsquo;s households of color own homes, compared to 62.5 percent of whites.&nbsp;</p>
<p>61 percent of Latino households in California have no savings. 57 percent of black households have no savings. 28 percent of white have no savings. That&rsquo;s how it breaks down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>61 percent of Latinos, 57 percent of blacks, 28 percent of whites.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, if you are in the circumstance you are going to have to depend on the government sooner or later. Probably sooner. And that takes out your power. Individual power, you don&rsquo;t have any money, individual power is nil. Your dependent on somebody giving you enough to survive. That&rsquo;s what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So California, very prosperous state in the sense that the economy is huge, is a place where destitution rules in the minority precincts. Destitution.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Huge taxes in California, huge. Gasoline taxes, income tax, every time you turn around there&rsquo;s another tax.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is the price you pay for a welfare state. Vicious cycle. So I thought you&rsquo;d like to know that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It pains me because I think America is the land of opportunity. But if you don&rsquo;t have any money you&rsquo;re not going to get much opportunity. You gotta save, you gotta work hard. Taxes are killing people. That&rsquo;s why the Trump administration better pass that middle class tax cut.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let&rsquo;s go to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Judy Taylor who lives in Montgomery, Alabama.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a little warm down there this time of year Judy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be extremely upset if President Trump fires Jeff Sessions. He has been a loyal and devoted follower of the President since the very beginning. If Trump is displeased with him why doesn&rsquo;t he talk to him in private rather than carrying on his campaign of public humiliation?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>I can&rsquo;t answer that question. I can tell you, as I told you at the top of the broadcast here, it would be bad for Trump if he fired Jeff Sessions. Bad for the country.</p>
<p>Patricia on the message board.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill love the podcast, the No Spin News. I agree with you that firing Sessions would start a fire storm. My concern in the Democratic team Mueller put together to investigate the Russian issue. I don&rsquo;t trust them. 7 out of the 15 investigators have given money to the Democratic Party. None of the 15 gave money to the Republican party.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yeah. Ok. I see it. Everybody sees it. Again Mueller can&rsquo;t do anything unless he has proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. Not one person. Not two people. But the entire campaign. He&rsquo;s got to present the facts to the American public. So even though you have that disparity in the investigative team, the end is the end. So I&rsquo;m not that upset about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill, Eugene, Oregon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Losing Js would be bad as he is a bulldog for the rule of law. Then he might lose Rex Tillerson who has a rare sense of responsibility and sobriety that is needed in foreign relations.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I don&rsquo;t know what the Tillerson thing is. Heather Nauert who used to work at Fox News, I&rsquo;ve known her for years, is his spokesperson, told us he is taking some time off. You can expect that. He&rsquo;s been running around the globe for the last few months. Give him a little break in the summer. I don&rsquo;t want to speculate. I don&rsquo;t know anything about it. I don&rsquo;t believe the press, for a second, knows anything about it. Tillerson is taking some time off. So what? So let&rsquo;s not put that out there.</p>
<p>By the way if you want to write me an email its Bill at BillOReilly.com. Bill at BillOReilly.com. And if you want to just go on the message board, we take a lot of these off the message boards. Premium Members, that&rsquo;s your privilege to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>By the way we&rsquo;ve gone over the 2 million mark in twitter followers. @BillOReilly. So get all your friends because I&rsquo;m going to start uping that because it&rsquo;s beginning to amuse me, these tweets.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Charles Devioro in Louisiana, outside of New Orleans.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Does Sessions recusing himself from the Russian investigation mean the entire DOJ is recused?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>No. The Department of Justice oversees Mueller. So they are in it up to their eyeballs.</p>
<p>Ann Arnold, Pompano Beach, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Sessions is not doing his job in protecting Trump. Put the heat on Clinton. Find the real truth.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not the attorney general&rsquo;s job to protect the president. It&rsquo;s the attorney general&rsquo;s job to enforce the law. And now the problem is, as we again mentioned at the top of the broadcast, what laws do you want to enforce? I do believe the Clinton Foundation should be investigated, as I said, because it&rsquo;s a current thing. It&rsquo;s still operating. But the emails? Benghazi? I wouldn&rsquo;t. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s done. The foundation, I would.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Susan, Saratoga Springs, New York, on the message board.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Great picture of Stalin and Truman.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I showed that to you yesterday.</p>
<p>&ldquo;For a minute it looked like Jared Kushner was right behind them.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Poor Jared. I mean come on really? Jared Kushner.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy Scott, Arlington, Kentucky.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Very inspiring story about Lt. Cole.&rdquo;</p>
<p>We told you about that yesterday. Silver Star awardee in World War II. He&rsquo;s 97.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jimmy goes on to ask, &ldquo;As a World War II expert do you believe we could win a war of that magnitude today? Is our snowflake society tough enough?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>No it isn&rsquo;t. So if we had to fight the Japanese and Germans today on the ground it would be much more difficult. Then it was in the 1940s when the depression kids were fighting. They were much tougher. But that kind of war is never going to be fought again because of the high-tech weaponry. Any kind of mass war, we&rsquo;re not talking about Syria or Iraq, a mass war, is not going to be ground troops. They&rsquo;ll be there but it&rsquo;ll be missiles and all that stuff. Weapons of Mass Destruction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Barbara in Sydney, Montana.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill I so appreciate your podcast and listen whenever I can. I also enjoy the video of the day. I&rsquo;m going to order the Day the World went Nuclear for my grandson who just turned 10.&rdquo;</p>
<p>We are going to send you, Barbara, you guys &ndash; my crew is in New York, I&rsquo;m here on Long Island so that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m talking to them &ndash; send the Day the World went Nuclear, which is the kids book off of Killing the Rising Sun, to Barbara.</p>
<p>And Finally Mary Beth in Beaver Creek, Ohio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I became a Premium Member when you started the podcast Bill. It has been worth every penny. My main reason for writing is my grandson has autism but loves history and wants to be a historian. He has trouble in school so I see college as being hard for him I hope and pray his dream of being a historian will be realized. Do you have any suggestions?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well as you mentioned he has been reading my history books. Your grandson is 17. He's read Killing the Rising Sun and I hope he's read Killing Patton and Killing Jesus, Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln. Also I'm going to send your grandson a copy of Legends and Lies the Civil War because that book gives you the whole primmer of the war. If he can get through these books there's no reason why he can't become whatever he wants to be. Including a historian. If he can retain that information and read he can do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm very heartened by your letter. So that's Marybeth from Beavercreek, Ohio. We&rsquo;ll send Legends and Lies the Civil War to her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don't forget Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. Don't forget Miller and O&rsquo;Reilly at Baltimore in the Royal Farms arena on September 22nd Friday night. Then we'll fly down to Tampa on September 23<sup>rd</sup>. Vegas, Caesars Palace, December 15th and the Honda Center in Anaheim is going to be huge on Saturday December 16th.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What else do I have for you? Anything else?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oh yes! We have the history quizzes up and we have 50 percent off any Killing book if you preorder Killing England. Killing England comes out September 19<sup>th</sup>. If you preorder on BillOReilly.com you get 50 percent off any Killing book. It's a great deal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you buy any Legends and Lies book, there are three of them now, you get a free Legends and Lies T-shirt. That's great. I didn't even know we had Legends and Lies T-shirts but apparently we do. So if you order any of the Legends and Lies books get a free T-shirt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I know I'm going to get mail on the Kansas City Royals. OK they've won seven in a row. The GM is a very smart guy. &nbsp;I love the colors. I just love the shirt. So we were out, Miller and I were in Kansas City doing a show. We went to a Royals game and Mr. Moore was kind enough to sit there and explain what was going on. &nbsp;And I got to shirred in the stadium. We like the Royals and keep your eye on him this year.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks for being Premium Members. We'll have more Miller tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-26T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Obamacare, Sessions and Chicago ViolenceBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Obamacare-Sessions-and-Chicago-Violence/594442024403053151.html2017-07-25T23:00:00Z2017-07-25T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, July 25, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Big news day.</p>
<p>First of all the healthcare thing. Now this is a bit overblown. We have to go through the process here but by a tie breaking vote Vice President Pence, in the senate, broke a 50/50 tie and now the debate on repealing and replacing Obamacare can move forward.</p>
<p>Just the debate. Nothing&rsquo;s been repealed. Nothing&rsquo;s been replaced.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So for you and me, we are going what is wrong with these pinheads?</p>
<p>And John McCain made a dramatic entrance. I am sure you saw it on TV. And he voted for continuing the debate or whatever.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Two Republicans damaged their own party. Susan Collins of Maine, I told you that she is not a Republican. She should switch over to the Democrat party.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Not really understanding that. I think she&rsquo;s committed political suicide. Alaska is a very republican state. But I don&rsquo;t know the nuances of Ms. Murkowski.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But those are the two Republicans who voted against continuing the debate. And of course all the democrats under fire from Chuck Schumer, the senate minority leader, he says &lsquo;look if you don&rsquo;t vote our way you&rsquo;re not getting a dime from the party to run your re-election campaign.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s what it is. That&rsquo;s what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, what happens now is they debate the repeal and replacement of Obamacare with new amendments. It will go on and on. Will anything ever get done? Probably not. Probably not. But anyway that&rsquo;s where it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A more intriguing story for the moment is Jeff Sessions the attorney general. Now apparently, he has angered the president in three ways.</p>
<p>Number one, his recusal from the Russian investigation into collusion.</p>
<p>You may remember that I said that was a smart move by Sessions because he did have, during the campaign, some discussions with some Russians. So he recuses and his deputy takes over. Ok. That shouldn&rsquo;t be a problem. But that angered the president because apparently Sessions didn&rsquo;t tell Donald Trump, when Trump was interviewing him for the job, that he would recuse himself. And I understand that. It&rsquo;s understandable.</p>
<p>Second, now the president wants Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s Russian connections investigated. Ok. He said, you remember after he took office, &lsquo;well, you know, we aren&rsquo;t going to mess with Hillary Clinton. Let bygones be bygones.'</p>
<p>But now with all the pressure ramped up on Russia Donald Trump wants the Justice Department to look into the Clinton Foundation. Which had all kinds of relationships with Russia and apparently Sessions isn't that hot to do it. But I don't know because I'm not in those discussions. But that surfaced as a reason Donald Trump is disenchanted with the attorney general.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And third is the leaks. That Trump wants an aggressive FBI investigation on the leaks. Apparently that's not happening. Again, I'm not there so I don't know what Sessions side of the story is but there is no doubt that Sessions may be fired.</p>
<p>Now ask yourself this question if you're a Trump supporter: what good is that going to do the Trump administration of fire Sessions? The interesting thing we should point to is that Jeff Sessions is hated by the left. They think he's a racist or they branded him as this or that - they hate him. But today he was sympathetic figure on CNN and MSNBC. 'Oh, Jeff Sessions is not being treated fairly'. So the lesson learned is the progressive Left hates Trump far more than Sessions. But if you knock Sessions out, if you fire him, and you have a new Attorney General what good does that do Donald Trump?</p>
<p>Maybe the new Attorney General will look into the Clinton Foundation. Maybe be more aggressive in the leaks. I guess. I guess. But the PR damage would be tremendous. Breitbart, a very conservative website as you know, said the conservative base would be furious if Jeff Sessions was fired. Why? Because Sessions has been very tough on illegal immigration. Very tough on sanctuary cities. Very tough on Kate's law. You know, behind that. And on a lot of other issues; drug enforcement. So Sessions is a conservative man who's using the Justice Department to clamp down on anarchy. And conservatives like that. They like it. So if Trump fires Sessions then, number one, the cover up stuff blows up into a huge thing. All right? <br /><br />And number two, a lot of conservatives are not going to like it and then number three, it gives the sense of weakness about the Trump administration. So it's almost inconceivable that the President would fire Sessions and put a new AG in and the new attorney general would fire Muller. You're building into a constitutional crisis that. All right, just like Nixon did. Do you really want to do that? So there's stuff I don't know about Sessions, so I can't tell the President 'hey don't do it' because there may be stuff I don't know. But right now I think it would be a terrible move to fire Sessions.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But it looks like, according to Scaramucci - the new communications chief, that Sessions is done. I guess that could change.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway overall what's happening to the Trump administration is chaos. Chaos.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this Obamacare thing today was a good day for the President because he asked for this to be passed and he got it, barely. Pence had to do it. But firing Sessions would be pandemonium for at least two weeks. It's a two-week pandemonium story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's bring in our pal Bernard McGuirk.</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))&nbsp;</p>
<p>Our thanks Bernie we'll talk soon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In other news, we're always following the Chicago violence story because it is the best example of racism in America.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, one of the things that really angered me about my career on Fox News was that when I said, 'look we have to help African-American children, we have to help them in very specific ways', I get branded a racist. Because I would say the schools are bad - they need school choice, parents - some of them the fathers are abandoning the kids out of wedlock, the birth rate is above 70 percent. You've got to stabilize all that. And I was a racist. OK. I'm telling you, that bothered me a lot because I want America to be a place where every single kid can have a decent shot.</p>
<p>Now in Chicago you have blacks killing blacks at an appalling rate. It's worse than Afghanistan. Over the weekend last weekend six people killed, 35 others in the Windy City shot. So far this year 391 homicides in Chicago. Four more than last year and last year was a record. OK. 2,112 people shot so far this year in Chicago.</p>
<p>It never gets better. It never gets better. Democratic mayor Rahm Emanuel. Democratic city council. Democrats control the city and Cook County. Republican governor. Nothing happens. Why does it happen? Because no matter what they tell you - they being the politicians - they don't care. They don't care. It's people who don't have any power. If you had 2, 112 white people in Chicago on the Gold Coast - on Rush Street - shot believe me that would stop.</p>
<p>There is a solution and the solution is to put the National Guard in these neighborhoods to stabilize. All right. Because the gangbangers aren't going to come out with guns when the National Guard is there. The National Guard cannot arrest but they can detain. Clearly the Chicago Police Department cannot handle it. Clearly. Now President Trump has sent Justice Department people in. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms people in. But this is basically to help with prosecutions, not to stop the gunfire. That's what we need. All right. So that's the update there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What else do we have here?</p>
<p>I've been meaning to mention this because on July 5th of this year there was an unbelievable anniversary and the anniversary was First Lieutenant Scott Cole, U.S. Army, in France in 1944 winning the Silver Star. Lieutenant Cole is still alive. I believe he's in Indiana.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What he did was amazing. He single handedly wiped out German machine gunners who were pinning down his unit. Single handedly whipped them down. Went out by himself. BOOM BOOM BOOM. He was wounded and got a Purple Heart in addition to the Silver Star. So anyway, Scott Cole. You are a patriot. I want everybody to know about you and your heroism. And we need more Scott Coles now today in this country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. Now I have on that note - World War II - I have something to show you. Take a look at this. That is who? You know who he is? With the mustache? Joseph Stalin. With Harry Truman the President, signed by Truman. I've never seen another one of these. Look at this snappy dress and the double-breasted coat. All right. Now they are buds now in 1945. I believe this picture was taken in 1945. They're buds because the Americans and the Soviet Union defeated Hitler. So that is an amazingly rare.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Having Truman sign that picture - because of course Stalin became an enormous enemy of the USA and killed as many people, if you can believe, it as Hitler did. Stalin killed as many. The reason that history doesn't record that is because there were no news reports of it. So, nobody liberated the gulags in the Soviet Union as they did the concentration camps in Germany and Poland.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK let's get to the mail right.</p>
<p>Andrew Muller, Jacksonville, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Remember two ways you get to me if you're Premium Members. On the message boards and Bill at BillOReilly.com. Bill at BillOReilly.com.</p>
<p>And if you want to follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/billoreilly?lang=en" target="_blank">@BillOReilly</a>. Our Twitter thing is exploding now. We got to catch Michael Moore. I said that yesterday. Michael Moore has five million Twitter followers. We have 2 million. We're going to pass him because now I'm paying attention to this.</p>
<p>All right here's Andrew Muller says "I found your discussion with Dr. Levinson of Fordham University very intriguing. I like to think the points you made had an impact on him. Other than the fact the news media frequently uses anonymous sources to attack Trump the way in which the media discusses Trump is not perceived as communication but as an allegation of misconduct."</p>
<p>Correct.</p>
<p>"In the case of Russia, the misconduct would be collusion. Dr. Levinson does not seem to grasp that the speculative nature of the attacks on Trump is greater than just reporting content, which you pointed out."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's the crux of the matter. That in the hate-Trump media he's already convicted of collusion with Russia. They've already convicted him. And now what they're doing is they're using anonymous sources, not backed up by anything, to prove their speculation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's so corrupt. I don't know if I got through to the doctor but I might've. And that's my job.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Stephen in Lake View, Oregon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"O'Reilly please don't bring those people on. I would like to keep enjoying the program. If I wanted that I'd go back and watch cable TV."</p>
<p>OK I understand that sometimes people's points of view can be frustrating. And this podcast or broadcast is designed basically for me to tell you what I think of the news of the day. And we spice it up with guests once in a while. But on a big view like fake news - which was with the discussion with Dr. Levinson was all about - then I need a guest because I do believe it is fake news. And I think it's horrible. But I want to talk to somebody who doesn't see it my way just to bring their arguments so you can see whether my point of view is stronger than their point of view. I think it was yesterday.</p>
<p>Jonathan, Reynoldsville, West Virginia.</p>
<p>"Bill no more guests that argue. This the reason I stopped watching cable news. I'm sick of the arguing back and forth."</p>
<p>OK I understand that. But it's debate, not argue. We weren't talking over each other or anything like that. There's a difference between argue and debate. And I think debate can be very educational.</p>
<p>Donald in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Excellent exchange with Dr. Levinson. I loved it. What a dream world he lives in. You probably destroyed his logic if it can be called that. Also, I would be interested to get your opinion on Dunkirk the movie when you have a chance to see it."</p>
<p>I did see it. Dunkirk is a pretty good movie. But if you're expecting history it is short on that. So as a movie, with drama, Dunkirk is effective - although I hated the music. Nitpicking. But they don't really contextualize what happened. You never see a German until the last two minutes of the movie. You see the planes but you don't know the enemy is. You don't see Churchill. America wasn't an in a war at that time when Dunkirk happened in France. So would I recommend the movie? I would if you just want good drama. But if you're looking for history I would not. See one of the beauties of my books, the Killing series in particular - and Legends the Lies the Civil War and the Wild West and Patriots - is that we take the drama but the history comes first. So we mill the two together. So you get the big picture but it's fun to read. In Dunkirk they didn't have any history in there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Susan Page, Greenwich, Connecticut.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Do you think Jared Kushner is telling the truth as far as the Russia meeting?"</p>
<p>Do I think in my opinion? I think he is. Is he sophisticated, does he remember everything? Probably not. Is he a devious guy? I don't know. But again, as I discuss with McGuirk, it would be impossible to put him as the point person on any collusion deal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kay in Sphero, Oklahoma.</p>
<p>"You keep saying let Mueller do his job. Now I don't believe they will find anything on Trump but believe me if they don't, they'll make it up.?</p>
<p>But they can't make it up, they can't. It's got to be there in stone for anything to happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Donald Blake, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>"What's going on with the murder of the woman in Minnesota by the police officer?"</p>
<p>I don't know. I gave you the latest on it and it's a very, very strange story. I think there'll be more to it. But right now the Minnesota authorities are not putting anything out. But we're on it. Very strange. A woman calls 911 and says there's some kind of assault going on or a house, cop car comes, two police officers in a car, the woman's an Australian. She comes out to greet the officers and one of the officers shoots her dead. Doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Deborah Labonte, Park Rapids, Minnesota.</p>
<p>"You mentioned in passing several weeks ago the podcast will be going through September. What happens after that?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>We're going to continue the podcast. It's just a matter of what form they'll take. Whether we go to a big studio - we may do that, we&rsquo;re looking at it - whether there'll be another concern involved with me. You know, I get job offers all the time. I'm taking a summer off. In the fall, I'll take a look. But, you know, believe me we're here for you. Because this is fun. I like this. I like talking to you guys. So we'll always have some form of this for Premium Members on BillOReilly.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Amy Lamin, Lithia, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Old School is excellent. See you in Tampa in September."</p>
<p>See you there in Tampa, Florida. And I always have to look at the dates because I'm old I can't remember all the dates. But it's September 23rd. And then the day the day before in Baltimore. And then in December - Caesar's Palace in Vegas and Honda Center in Anaheim. Get those tickets. You'll love the show.</p>
<p>But thank you Amy for reading Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. I appreciate it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally Eugene Jost, Sebastian, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"My folks give me a copy of Killing Kennedy for my birthday. Read the entire book in one day and, after a nap, I signed up to become a Premium Member.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Always good to take a nap before making a big decision like that.</p>
<p>"You and Martin Dugard changed my life. I can't thank you enough for re-energizing my love of history and reading an actual book. I will read everything that you write and I am now a Premium Member. God bless you Bill.</p>
<p>Thank you Eugene. That is very kind of you. The books are going great. Old school: Life in the Sane Lane - if you're on the beach you want to read that. Legend and Lies the Civil War, if you want to know about the Civil War, this is the book. The Day the World went Nuclear is the kids book off Killing the Rising Sun. That's doing great. Number one for juvenile nonfiction and all the Killing books are there for you this summer. Because if you go on vacation you need a book. If you're traveling you need a book, a fun book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. I think we got everything done and we will be back again tomorrow. Thanks for being Premium Members.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-25T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Jared Kushner and Trump; Interview on Media BiasBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Jared-Kushner-and-Trump;-Interview-on-Media-Bias/-904178043807888261.html2017-07-24T23:00:00Z2017-07-24T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, July 17, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I got my Tampa Bay Bucs shirt on because I like the shirt. It looks good on this set and the Bucs are going to have a good season this year. They have some good players. And of course, Miller and I will be down in Tampa to see everybody on September 23<sup>rd</sup> I believe. But we&rsquo;ll get to that later on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want to tell you about a few things happening the new today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jared Kushner. Now is this the high school prom king or what? He gets out there.&nbsp; He looks like he&rsquo;s 17,18 years old. He goes into the Senate Intelligence Committee and answers their questions about colluding with the Russians during the presidential campaign. He says &lsquo;I didn&rsquo;t do anything&rsquo;. You know. Do I believe him? There&rsquo;s no reasons not to believe him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Just put it his way. If you were Putin and you wanted to undermine the American election is Jared Kushner where you are going? I don&rsquo;t think so. Now Paul Manafort? There you got some questions. So anyway, Kushner goes into the Senate Intelligence Committee. Not under oath, but if you lie to congress it&rsquo;s a crime.&nbsp; So he can&rsquo;t lie. And he said &lsquo;look I didn&rsquo;t have anything to do with colluding with anybody. I was at that dopy meeting with Donald Trump Jr. It was boring, nothing happened. He asked me to go into a meeting, I said all right, like anybody would, but I didn&rsquo;t do anything&rsquo;.</p>
<p>So I can almost guarantee you, and this is very bad news for CNN and MSNBC, it doesn&rsquo;t matter they are going to run wild with it tonight anyway, but I can almost guarantee you that Jared Kushner did not collude with anybody to do anything. Now I can be wrong. And that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m doing this because now we have it on tape and if Jared Kushner is in cuffs one day and breaks down and confesses that he and Putin met in Russia to undermine the presidential election I&rsquo;ll say I was wrong.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you get the idea. This is going nowhere. Manafort, you know, there&rsquo;s an interesting guy. And we assume that Mueller, the special prosecutor is looking at Manafort. &nbsp;A lot of money involved with Manafort. He was making money over there. No necessarily with the Russians but with Ukraine and pro-Russian people. Him, you gotta look at. And he was Trump&rsquo;s campaign manager for a short period of time. And you gotta look at some of the other stuff if you want to do an honest job.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I thought Susan Collins, the senator from Maine, who is giving the Republicans heat burn because of her Obamacare take, I thought her advice to Trump was good. Step back, just let Mueller do what he does, he can&rsquo;t hurt you unless he&rsquo;s got facts. Now, if Mueller were to say &lsquo;ok I&rsquo;m expanding my investigation into Trump&rsquo;s business dealings &ndash; nothing tod o with Russia 0 ok then I say the the line may be crossed and Trump is going to use his power and say &lsquo;look, your mandate is to do Russia, collusion, election, not to look into my business dealings&rsquo;.</p>
<p>Ok so, right now, with what Mueller is doing, Trump would be wise to step back and allow the crazy anti-Trump press to run wild. Because they&rsquo;re going to look foolish. I think.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right now, nobody knows this, but Susan Rice, former top Obama advisor, was called into the same Senate Intel Committee on Friday, to talk about the Russia deal and whether she did anything wrong in unmasking people who were being tapes by the NSA on the phone with foreign nationals. But nobody heard anything about it. Ms. Rice, unlike Jared Kushner, didn&rsquo;t make a statement.&nbsp; Slipped in and out on Friday, very little coverage. No leaks! No leaks on Rice. I guarantee you there will be leaks on Kushner and anything that Trump does. I guarantee it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right now Anthony Scaramucci, he lives in my town here. I don&rsquo;t know him. I met him once at a quick social occasion but I don&rsquo;t know him. All the vendors here in town know him and they say he&rsquo;s a nice guy.</p>
<p>So has says &lsquo;look I&rsquo;m going to fire the whole staff if these leaks continue&rsquo;. He can&rsquo;t do that but he&rsquo;s mad about the leaks. And really, step back, even if you don&rsquo;t like Trump, all the leaks are designed to hurt Donald Trump. None designed to hurt Barack Obama or Susan Rice. None.</p>
<p>Because they are leaking to an anti-Trump press. Two vehicles primarily are getting all the stuff. The New York Times and the Washington Post.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now anybody can leak anything. I mean today there was a thing about me going to some organization, some network. Totally ridiculous.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m taking the summer off. I made that quite clear. I&rsquo;m not signing with anybody. I&rsquo;m not doing anything. I&rsquo;m having fun. I&rsquo;m having fun doing this, I&rsquo;m having fun going to the beach, going fishing. But they just throw it out there. &lsquo;Sources say Bill O&rsquo;Reilly&hellip;&rdquo;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s just a bunch of crap. But they can get away with it. Because nobody cares really.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So its sources say Donald Trump did this. Sources say somebody did that. And they print it as fact, as gospel.&nbsp; Any allegation is true now in America in the press. Any allegation is true. What do they check? They don&rsquo;t check.&nbsp; Who are the sources? Anybody can say anything. Especially if its negative. Because that puts the person who is being attacked on the defense. Who am I defending now? Whose saying this? You know there is a reason why, in our justice system, you have a right to face your accuser.</p>
<p>You have a right to face your accuser. Accuser can&rsquo;t be anonymous, can&rsquo;t be a source we&rsquo;re protecting. In the court of law you have to just step right up because that&rsquo;s the fair thing. You know where the person is coming from. But now, its whatever the allegation is. And we all know beyond a reasonable doubt that the hate Trump media wants him out. And they are going to trump up, pardon the pun, anything they can to try to generate scandal and try to make it impossible for Donald Trump to govern.</p>
<p>Now in a moment I want to get to this healthcare thing, what a mess this is devolving into.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ll get to that in a moment.&nbsp; First I want to bring in Doctor Paul Levinson.</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right so this afternoon Donald Trump started to pound Obamacare again, calling it a disaster, you know, the usual. He had people behind him that are suffering with higher premiums and doctors they couldn&rsquo;t access. That kind of thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, all of this is an attempt to persuade the Republican senators tomorrow to vote for whatever Mitch McConnell, the Senate leader, puts in front of them. I don&rsquo;t know what he&rsquo;s going to put in front of them. Probably a simply &lsquo;we have to vote on extending the debate over Obamacare repeal&rsquo; or something like that. Tomorrow we&rsquo;ll all know what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you are never going to get Rand Paul, I don&rsquo;t think, to vote for anything. And now John McCain with brain tumor is out of the box. So, you know. Susan Collins in Maine? Anyway, I think President Trump is frustrated. The Republican party is in disarray. It certainly in in disarray.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, look, you watching this broadcast now, you follow politics, you know what&rsquo;s going on. Most Americans have no blanking clue.&nbsp; Remember Watters&rsquo; World? People used to say we staged that. No we didn&rsquo;t. &nbsp;we just picked people are random. They didn&rsquo;t know anything that was going on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you have a situation that the Republican party, the perception of it is that it doesn&rsquo;t have control of the process.&nbsp; That is going to hurt the vote in 2018. Because that&rsquo;s when the next big, all the house races, etc.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right a couple other stories.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In San Antonino, an awful situation. There was a truck carrying about 40 migrants &ndash; illegal aliens &ndash; up from the border, didn&rsquo;t give them any water, a lot of them couldn&rsquo;t breathe. 10 are dead. Another 30 went to the hospital.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A truck driver named James Matthew Brady &ndash; 60 years old from Clearwater, Florida &ndash; was charged in the deaths of 10 illegal aliens.&nbsp; He&rsquo;s in big trouble. I just can&rsquo;t imagine not giving people water, putting them in the back of a truck in South Texas, I just can&rsquo;t imagine. But they did it. And now we have this disaster.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the bigger political question, other than the humanitarian thing, the reason that we don&rsquo;t want an open border, a crazy insane border, is because of this. Because of the exploitation of these poor people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In Mexico women get rapped. They are paying thousands of dollars for coyotes to bring them across illegally and then they get here and then they are abused on this side. Because they have no power. That&rsquo;s why you can&rsquo;t have this.&nbsp; So that is awful.</p>
<p>Another story that caught my eye in London.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And this tells you what this country could be. In England, Great Britain, the government basically runs the show. Private enterprise is second. In American private enterprise runs the show, the government runs the show. The Democratic party doesn&rsquo;t like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we have a little girl in Mile End London. I went to school in Mile End at Queen Mary college.&nbsp; That was my place. Mile End, tough neighborhood. Not an affluent neighborhood. Queen Mary College, nice place, I was there for a year studying history. Andre Spicer&rsquo;s daughter, 5 years old, was outside selling lemonade because there was a musical festival in Mile End.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the little girl says &lsquo;daddy I want to sell lemonade. I want to make a little money.&rdquo; 5 years old. Some government pinhead comes across, shuts her stand down, fines the family 150 pounds &ndash; that&rsquo;s more than $200. I mean, the family doesn&rsquo;t have any money, they live in Mile End. Can you imagine this? Because the little girl didn&rsquo;t have a license to sell lemonade.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, the press got ahold of it, now they rescinded the fine and they&rsquo;re embarrassed. But this shows you what this is. When the government runs the show, there&rsquo;s going to be oppression and there&rsquo;s going to be unintended consequences because of the inefficiency of the bureaucracy.</p>
<p>Whenever you hear somebody saying they want more government &ndash; that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m not a democrat. My family way back, we were all democrats, because we are Irish the democratic party embraced us when we came over.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Democrats want more government? Come on!&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok let&rsquo;s get to the letters. One of the favorite parts of the program here.</p>
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<p>Kathleen says: &ldquo;I am increasingly feeling like Dennis Miller. Watching the Republicans stay disunited time and again was like watching a ticking time bomb that you know is going to explode. We have fought the good fight. Those of us at a certain age are realizing with our intensity our time on earth is finite and we are reaching a critical point. Do we continue to use our precious time on the circus of insanity that politics and media have evolved? Or do we spend more time on enjoyment of individual pursuits family travel which is life enriching?&rdquo;</p>
<p>It's an excellent letter Kathleen from Pennsylvania. Senior citizens, baby boomers, the greatest generation, they understand what America was. That's why I wrote Old School: Life the Sane insanely. But now it's different.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what do you do? You fight the rising tide or do you just say you know what I did my part now I'm going to go travel and enjoy myself?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think you still remain active because you love your country. But you enjoy yourself as much as you can and don't take it to heart. We, because I&rsquo;m here, baby boomer, did the best we could. But I'm not giving up. I&rsquo;m in</p>
<p>Thomas in Riverside California. &ldquo;Listen to Miller. And he said he was dropping out of politics. I agree with him because I think the left will win the war.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think so.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think so. I think that there's going to be a backlash against the politically correct culture and the corruption in the media - &nbsp;the left wing media. I think there&rsquo;s going to be a backlash.&nbsp;</p>
<p>John in Williamsville, New York.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill what is your take on Mueller? I think he should be fired by this attorney general&gt;&rdquo;</p>
<p>It would be a disaster to fire Mueller, disaster. Unless he does something, as we discussed earlier, that goes beyond his purview and is wrong but right now can't do it. If Donald Trump did that his whole presidency would collapse because the people who not interested in politics would think he was hiding something. And that's it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>You know, Killing the Rising Sun features Desmond Doss the medic who saved seventy five people in Okinawa.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;You know that's why we're here. I know history was boring for many of you but isn't anymore.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Right? Who does that anymore? Dear somebody and then respectfully &hellip; that doesn&rsquo;t happen anymore.</p>
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<p>Thanks for being Premium Members. We'll see you tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-24T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Cynicism in American Politics, Dennis Miller, and O.J. SimpsonBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Cynicism-in-American-Politics-Dennis-Miller-and-O.J.-Simpson/-727084338075136693.html2017-07-20T23:00:00Z2017-07-20T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday July 20th, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I got a surprise for you at the end of this newscast. So stick around for my private history collection. We're going to talk with Dennis Miller. Continuing our conversation from yesterday about why Miller has dropped out of the political process. I kind of scold him for it because I'm in. I have to be in on all of it because I have to do this. I think he's very worthy to give you guys a newscast that's honest. Put things into perspective. You're not getting that the cable news landscape unfortunately. It has declined drastically as you probably know. It is not what it used to be. Network news at night is irrelevant. People don't even care. Scott Pelley left as the CBS Evening News anchor, nobody cared. Morning shows are entertainment driven. Late night comedians, their audience falling fast. Changing world in the media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK so today I want to talk about cynicism of politics on both sides. I have a lot of liberal friends. It's just living here in New York. I've known a lot of my friends since I'm five years old and it's all over the map. Some are very conservative. Some are very liberal. Not crazy liberal though. We can have a conversation, they don't take it personally. And I always like to find out their thinking process.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So number one above and beyond that's driving cynicism in the liberal precincts is Donald Trump. Most liberals don't believe it should be there in the White House. Some believe he cheated. You know that. They don't have any facts. It&rsquo;s just what they believe. Others believe that his style isn't compatible with what a president should be. They don't like his business background, don't like how he conducts himself. They don't like his tweeting. They don't like anything about him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they're cynical. They don't like the fact that you may have voted for him or I may have voted for him. I never tell anybody who I vote for. When you throw up the fact that, you know, the election was between an untested bombastic man, Donald Trump, and a corrupt Democrat, Hillary Clinton, it kind of changes it doesn't it. It&rsquo;s not exactly Trump was running against Dwight Eisenhower. And you know whether the Liberals like it or not Hillary Clinton is corrupt. Facts prove it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So when I get that discussion rolling with the left about cynicism It starts in the White House then it goes into reproductive rights, women's rights, but not a level playing field for blacks and minorities, immigration - you shouldn't be barring people coming in. Depending on where they are in the left-wing spectrum. OK. I don't know too many crazy people. I tend to walk away from that. You know I don't really have that in my circle. If you're, you know, out of your mind - you know saying crazy stuff that's not fact based - I understand why some people believe abortion is permissible. I don't. Because of my religious training or belief system but abortion on demand for any reason? No. Every human rights group in the world should be screaming about that. Black lives matter. OK. I have said many many times that it is tougher for African-Americans in this country. No doubt tougher. OK, but you're going to tell me that every policeman is a racist and that they're going down to hunt blacks and try to put them in prison because they're black? No. That's insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So there's varying degrees of liberalism.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now on the right, you've got this politically correct society that's driving conservatives crazy and they're saying 'look, you know, we can't have free speech anymore in college campuses, we have a socialistic political platform on the Democratic Party - they want socialism - they don't respect private property or they don't respect achievement - they being they the drivers. They Nancy Pelosi's, the Chuck Schumer, the Barack Obamas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Barack Obama, he was outwardly extreme but everything he did was geared toward establishing a quasi-socialistic system. You know he was the opposite of Donald Trump. Trump's bombastic. He is emotional. Barack Obama was unemotional, passive aggressive, but his agenda was far left. And the economy suffered for it. That's why there was no job expansion, taxes were like up to here, working Americans can't pay their health care premiums.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was all that socialism stuff that strangled the economy and prevented expansion. I mean Jamie Dimon the CEO of some big bank, he flat out said 'look we can have an economy that's much much stronger if we were to just unleash it'. And that's why this tax cut thing is so important. And if the Republicans can't get that done, talk about cynicism. You know after last week many Republicans are just saying look what's the matter with my party? And that's a good question. What's the matter with the Republican Party? I'm an independent. OK. And you know I'm looking at these Republican senators going what's wrong with you. you know Ronald Reagan said it best. You get 75 percent of what you want you take it. Lincoln knew that. Washington knew that. You know powerful leaders, good forward thinking leaders say I'll take the 75 percent now and I'll get the rest later. You know kicking that thing down. And letting Obamacare stay in place - crazy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK so there's a lot of cynicism you know and now I'm getting letters from people who agree with Dennis Miller that it's over. The country is never going to come back. I don't really believe that. I think it's damaged. The country's damaged. I think that academe is crazy. High schools and colleges training younger people to be zombies, politically correct zombies. That's going to be hard to reverse but it's doable if the culture changes. It doable. Not a lot of people stepping up. There's a machine, a smear machine. Sheryl Attkisson writes about it in her new book 'The Smear', that goes after people like me who stand up to it. It's intense. And I understand where Miller's coming from. But if you don't understand it, if you haven't heard it, I talked with him yesterday. And here it is.</p>
<p>((Interview))&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get rid of Miller. All right. Go!</p>
<p>All right. So let's pick it up with O.J. Simpson getting paroled. Serve nine years of 33 for kidnapping, armed robbery in Vegas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Basically Simpson got involved with some people who said somebody stole your sports memorabilia. We got to go take it from them. All of that. So jury said 'hey you did a bad thing O.J. Simpson. You're going to serve time'. He served nine years. Now in a beef like that if you had a clean record, you may not have even gotten one day in jail. It might have been a probation thing. So now Simpson is up for parole and he gets it because you can't really keep him in jail any longer. I mean it was 9 to 33. He served nine. It's a karma deal in the sense that the jury and every other American who follows anything knows that O.J. Simpson killed his wife, ex-wife and her boyfriend. And those of you still don't buy that, you've got to go to motive. There's always a motive in premeditated murder.</p>
<p>Nobody else had a motive to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. And then there was no evidence pointing to anybody else. None. And everybody followed the trial. I covered the trial. It was apparent. He had motive, he had opportunity. When he got caught he ran away. And the jury was race based and the jury just didn't want to convict him. And they didn't. So he gets out and then he meanders around and then he does this so. Karma.</p>
<p>Many people feel that he shouldn't have been given parole. But here's the truth on this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A parole board or jury, anybody, has to decide on just the case in front of it. Not other cases. So if you're honest, and we hope our criminal justice system is, we know it doesn't always meet that standard, you have to go by just the case in front of you. You can't say well he's a killer, we're not letting him out. You can't do it. Hurts. He shouldn't get out. He should be there for the rest of his life. But you can't do it under our criminal justice system.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Remember we have a much different system then say France's Napoleonic code - you're guilty until proven innocent. That's what they do over there and other countries do it as well. You know, we give the benefit of the doubt and the benefit of the legal systems demands to the accused. Now in the media that's gone away. Any allegations are a conviction in the media. That's it. They don't care. Due process eh! Their sensational headline rules.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If anybody is accused of anything they're guilty unless they're in your ideological zone, like Hillary Clinton. But in the court system, in the system we have, you have rights if you're accused. And they have to be sacrosanct because you can't have a system whereby it's all based on emotion. As the OJ Simpson murder jury was all emotion. You know I saw and talked with some of the jurors after the verdict. They couldn't spell it out. I mean I know the glove. I got it. But there could have been a million explanations for the glove. You know your hands swell up, you eat a lot of salt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the fact remains that I believe without any doubt that he was guilty of murder. O.J. Simpson. But he's going to get out in October. He'll be on the shows, probably get a book. Nobody will read the book. I mean nobody will read the book. So any publisher is out of their mind. But he'll get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Interesting fact: the NFL pension that he gets can't be suspended. Even though he has a civil judgment against him by the Goldman family, which led to this memorabilia thing by the way, that money from the NFL goes in every month. All right. And it has been. So when he walks out the other money. And the Goldmans can't get that. But anything else he makes, because he lost the civil suit, has to go to them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Summer now officially half over on July 20th. And as a kid I can never shake this - it was always dread that I have to go back to school in September. OK. So it was like 'urghh' every day that it got closer. And then the sun starts to go down, you know, because of solstice in June. And August everybody takes off now in America. It's like France and Europe. If you go to Europe and it is the best time to go to Europe - going to go Paris or Rome, Rome's get really hot - but you go in August and nobody is there. You just walk around a museum and have a good time. Nobody there. They're on the shore somewhere on the Mediterranean or the Atlantic in August. Everybody takes off. And now this country's getting the same way. You don't get a lot done in August.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But then September, you know, in the schools now - the colleges - they start late August. Used to be after Labor Day and now even high schools and grammar schools in Florida - and the hot states Texas - they start early. They start in August. I can never figure that one out. I like to give the kids a break. Yeah, they're a little mushy the first month or so, but they need a break. They need real life experience. So summer is drifting away and I'm having a really good summer because I don't have to go to work every day. And I didn't know whether I'd like that or not but I like it. It is fun.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I want to show you something that happened 72 years ago this week. OK. So you know, I have a historical document collection. All right so I found this letter from General Eisenhower dated in July 1944. 73 years ago. Right. He took time right after D-Day to write this letter to a man named Bennett McGee in Cleveland.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Mr. Magee wanted general Eisenhower to write to his church the east Glenville Methodist Church and Eisenhower did on Supreme Headquarters allied expeditionary force stationary. I'm going to quote what he said because it's interesting. Eisenhower writes "to your congregation I should like to say that in this war there are definitely fighting for those basic principles of human rights and dignity that are implicit in the teachings of Christianity. I should like to tell your congregation that even though there are grim and bitter task still facing us when soldiers are sustained by deep seated conviction in the internal justice of the cause for which they are fighting the first great step toward victory has already been attained.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he's basically saying - the war by that time against Hitler in Europe was essentially won. Once the Allies got into France and started to move east toward Germany, the Germans weren't going to stop because the Germans were tied up on the Russian front. Hitler totally lost it and Eisenhower knew that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But he's penning the motivation of the allied forces, Americans in particular, on their Christian belief system and it was true. The Nazis were evil, godless, heathens and the Americans and the British and the French and the other allied forces had a Judeo-Christian philosophy. All right. And the Judeo part of it - the Jewish part of it - is again justice is paramount, justice. It&rsquo;s not justice to throw people in concentration camps and to limit all of their freedoms. So I wanted to read you that letter. I'm proud to have it. Eisenhower a very interesting guy. And if you read Killing the Rising Sun and Killing Patton we tell you a lot about Eisenhower - particularly in killing Patton. OK.</p>
<p>So let's get to the mail, shall we. Of course we shall.&nbsp;</p>
<p>James Cook, Sunnyside, New York.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And by the way want to reach me on an e-mail. Bill at BillOReilly.com. Bill at BillOReilly.com. That's e-mail. Message boards - you Premium Members post, we read them, we take it from there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Hey Bill, I've been a Premium Member for two months and I'm enjoying your take on the news immensely. I'm disappointed though that you say you won't speculate on a subject. Speculation is just an opinion and we as Premium Members want to hear your opinion. So please speculate."</p>
<p>Here's a difference between an opinion and speculation. My opinions James are based on facts. That makes them powerful. That's why I won almost every debate I ever had in 20 years on television, because I had the facts. Once you start getting into the realm of speculation - conjecture - coulda, woulda - I lose that edge and then people can't tell whether my opinions are speculative or fact based. So that's why I keep them in the fact zone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And when the rare occasion when I do go out to speculate I tell you and I say "this is educated speculation'. I'm a linear thinker. A leads to B, leads to C.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Pamela Parker, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I look forward to the podcast. I miss it on Friday when the weekend comes along. I have less anxiety with your instruction and insight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well, thank you for that Pamela.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"You're my main source for news. One concern is with the health care system. What's the difference with socialized medicine and universal healthcare.&nbsp;</p>
<p>None. There's no difference. There's no difference. Universal healthcare means everybody is covered but you can't have that unless you have the government mandating what happens to the costs. Who treats Who. What diseases are treated. On and on. Socialized medicine is pretty much the same. Government runs the shop. All right so there may be a few nuances but it's essentially the same.</p>
<p>Steve Sumner, Elk River, Minnesota.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, it&rsquo;s great being a premium member. Why is it that the Republicans keep failing in the market of their ideas? Put up a battle against the Democrats.</p>
<p>Because the Republicans are not as organized as the Democrats. The Democrats, we've gone through this before, have leadership that basically says our way or the highway. You do it our way or you can forget about running for re-election with any money from us. Powerful. And they're very, very afraid. Also Democrats have hired horrible, terrible smear merchants to attack those with whom they disagree.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's a little bit of that on the right. Not a lot. And the Republican Party is balkanizing, are all over the place. So that's why the messaging is much more difficult for the GOP than for the Democrats.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Judith Saunders, Toledo, Ohio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill, grateful for the podcast. I want to know this. Trump has been in office six months. Why does it seem like if he doesn't get everything done right now it's a total loss?</p>
<p>Because the propagandists at the hate-Trump movement want you to think he's a loser. I mean they'll come back to health care somewhat but Donald Trump has got to get a big win. Border is a big win but nobody's covering it. You know the migrants, illegal aliens, coming to the border to cross - that's down huge because of Trump. That's a big win. But you'll never hear about it. But health care and tax cuts those are enormous. They transcend most political issues. Health care didn't work out, tax cut must.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nicole in Denville, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"I'm supporting Rand Paul and Mark Meadows and their stand against McConnell and his bogus attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare."&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. I mean I know I'm not a big McConnell fan but just know that if the Republicans can't get it together they're going to pay a price next year. They may lose Congress.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Barry Roberts, Rockville, Virginia.</p>
<p>"Loved the book Old School. I'm at the tail end of the baby boomer generation, I was glad I fit into the same lane. My daughter is at the high end of the millennials. I passed along the book to her. After reading it she has a better understanding of the people who work under her. This includes three generational groups. And she'll read anything that will make her a better boss.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK you got to understand the millennials - pampered crew you know -largely pampered crew. Their parents were once removed from baby boomers - the parents who went through the Depression and World War Two - tough tough people tough times - so the millennials don't have that kind of 'life is hard philosophy'. Their philosophy is where's mine, give me mine, I want mine. It&rsquo;s my time. So to understand that is important. And Old School: Life in the Sane Lane, I'm glad it helped your daughter run whatever business she's in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Garrett Floyd, Kokomo, Indiana.</p>
<p>"Currently reading Legends and Lies the Civil War. What a wonderful book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you very much Garrett.</p>
<p>"It has already taught me more about the war between states than anything I previously studied. It's very well written and easy to understand and absorb. The pictures bring you there."&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's right. Our art in Legends and Lies the Civil War and in all the L&amp;L books is fabulous.</p>
<p>"And humanizes the historical figures involved. I've read all the Killing books as well. And Old School. All of them taught me more than I learned in my 70 years about history.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well that's why we're in business, Garrett. We got Killing England coming up September 19th. You can order in advance. Re-up the membership you get it free. Or recommend Premium Membership to three people and you get four books free. Four books free. So go in there we'll tell you how to do that. Great deal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then we have The Day the World went Nuclear, the kids book off Killing the Rising Sun - doing very well. Again that's a book adults will like too. So we got a lot of product in the marketplace. This is the last time that will ever happen. It's going to be the Killing book in September and that's pretty much it. Killing England. You're going to love it. So thanks for being a Premium Members. I think we've hit every note we can hit. Oh yeah, the tour dates. I did that with Miller last night. So if you want to see Miller and me, you'll like it. Have a great weekend. We'll talk again on Monday.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-20T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Mainstream Media Hysteria Over Russia; Interview with MillerBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Mainstream-Media-Hysteria-Over-Russia;-Interview-with-Miller/-472426450817498532.html2017-07-19T23:00:00Z2017-07-19T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members and welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 19, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this, today, is the best example I can possibly come up with of the irresponsibility of the American media. This is the best. The most vivid. The most incisive.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now President Trump is being attacked for having an unauthorized &ndash; that&rsquo;s the press word &ndash; meeting with Putin at a dinner after the G20 formalities took place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok? And everybody on CNN and MSNBC and the liberal newspapers are going &lsquo;uh! Unauthorized meeting!&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s what happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Trump is having dinner with all the G20 heads and their wives. Melania Trump is seated next to Putin. Trump is seated next to the Japanese guy ok? So after dinner Trump gets up and goes over to see his wife. Putin is there. Putin starts a conversation. There&rsquo;s a Russian translator there who is helping Melania and Putin communicate. Putin and Trump wander off the table a little bit and they have a conversation. Anybody would do that. Any world leader would do that. It&rsquo;s nothing to be concerned about. It&rsquo;s not sinister. It&rsquo;s not incompetent. It&rsquo;s not any of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And they blow this thing up into this &lsquo;uh how can you do it? and what might have been said?&rsquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Listen to this - this is from Axios &ndash; the political website &ndash; they are analyzing this alright? And this is what they said:&nbsp;</p>
<p>&lsquo;Why it matters: It breaks national-security protocol for a U.S. president to meet with a Russian counterpart with only Russian staff present: The Russian translator could misinterpret Trump's words to Putin. And the U.S. has no real-time record of what was said. Putin, with more experience, owns the meeting.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>What a bunch of crap. Sorry about that word. I don&rsquo;t like that word. It&rsquo;s just garbage.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If Trump refused to speak to Putin that would have been disrespectful. &nbsp;Then he would have been accused of creating an incident.&nbsp; It doesn&rsquo;t matter what Trump and Putin said to each other. It doesn&rsquo;t matter. At all. Its unofficial. Maybe they were talking about Putin&rsquo;s hockey career.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now look I&rsquo;m not in business to defend the Trump administration, although that&rsquo;s how it is coming down here on the podcast, because its so insane what is happening. I have to tell you the truth. Alright?</p>
<p>Maybe down the road it&rsquo;ll come to the point where Trump did something wrong or he cant rule or governor, he cant do the job,. Maybe that will happen.</p>
<p>If it does I&rsquo;ll tell you.</p>
<p>But this insane insidious garbage everyday &hellip; It&rsquo;s a strategy. Everyday there&rsquo;s a scandal de-jour. Run him down. Run him down. Run him down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They did the same thing for me for 20 years but I had an hour television show to fight back. It really makes me angry about this dishonesty.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright the health care thing in a nutshell. They are going to vote next week so says</p>
<p>Mitch McConnell the senate leader, whose power now is really lessened. He couldn&rsquo;t get the GOP healthcare bill passed. So his power now is down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he says &lsquo;ok we are going to vote next week to repeal Obamacare&rsquo;. He needs 50 votes. There are 52 Republican senators. He needs 50. Is he going to get 50? Nobody thinks so.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Susan Collins in Maine, she&rsquo;s not a Republican.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rand Paul will vote for it. But you&rsquo;re going to find 2 or 3 other guys that just aren&rsquo;t going to do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is a good lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal today excoriating the Republican senators for basically handing the country to the democrats. And that&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;re doing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that votes going to come next week. Possible McConnell can pull it out as a tie and then Vice President Pence would make the breaking vote. But it&rsquo;ll be fascinating to see. They need 51 votes. They have to get a majority. That&rsquo;s what they need.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let&rsquo;s bring in our pal Dennis Miller.&nbsp;</p>
<p>(INTERVIEW)&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was the one and only Dennis Miller and tomorrow we&rsquo;re going to have a philosophical but funny conversation that we taped today so don&rsquo;t miss it.</p>
<p>Alright let&rsquo;s get back to the No Spin News. Now this is an amazing story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is a group called Women&rsquo;s March &ndash; and these were the people behind the inaugural march in Washington - and now they put out a statement honoring a terrorist. A woman who killed a police officer. So three democratic senators were asked if they still support the women&rsquo;s March organization. The senators are Kamila Harris, Diane Feinstein, both of California. And Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Those women would not, would not, repudiate the Women&rsquo;s March.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here&rsquo;s what happened.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the Women&rsquo;s March tweeted a birthday greeting to 70 year old Assata Shakur. And they are calling here a hero of the feminist movement.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Quote: &ldquo;Assata Shakur&rsquo;s resistance tactics were different than ours. It does not mean we do not respect her anti-feminist work.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok. This is unbelievable. Here&rsquo;s her resistance tactics. You ready?&nbsp;</p>
<p>In 1973, May 2 of 1973, as a member of the black panthers and the black liberation, Assata Shakur and two other individuals were stopped on the New Jersey turnpike by state troopers. A shoot out ensued. One of Shakur&rsquo;s companions was killed, she was wounded, and a police officer named Werner Foerster was killed. Another state trooper suffered injuries in that shoot out. This is on just a pull over. Subsequently she was convicted of first degree murder of a state trooper. Which means that the jury in the case found that Shakur opened fire on him. That&rsquo;s first-degree murder. If it was anything other than that it would have been 2<sup>nd</sup> degree or man slaughter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She was in prison in West Virginia. That was in 1977. In 1979, she escapes &ndash; had to be an inside job- and she goes to Cuba. Where she is right now! Cuba, the Castro brothers harbor her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally, in June, just last month, when President Trump said he was going to tighten up the Cuban situation, that he is not going to have the Obama policy of open interaction, he cited this Assad Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joanne Chesimard is her real name but Shakur is what the Women&rsquo;s March is using.</p>
<p>So Trump said &lsquo;look we want this woman back. She murdered a cop. She escaped from prison. You&rsquo;re harboring her and if you keep her we are not going to deal with you on the level that Obama did.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it&rsquo;s a really, really good story. And you&rsquo;re not going to see that reported anywhere else. That&rsquo;s why you are Premium Members. And why you come here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right this officer who shot the woman in Minneapolis. Here&rsquo;s an update.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Number one we have a column on it. It ties this in to Black Lives Matter and all of this. There is something very wrong with this story and I told you that yesterday.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright here&rsquo;s the nuts and bolts of it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Two police officers Matthew Harrity&nbsp;and Mohamed Noor were called to a scene where a woman called 911 and said &lsquo;look there is some kind of stuff going on here. It might be a sexual assault. I don&rsquo;t know what it is&rdquo;.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they show up and they are looking around and the woman who called 911, Justine Damond, appears in her pajamas. She sees the police car she wants to tell them what she knows. All of a sudden officer Mohamed Noor, who is sitting on the passenger side, shoots her out the window, killing her. Shoots her from within the car and kills her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Noor wont talk to investigators.&nbsp; His partner says we heard a loud noise near our car and that&rsquo;s why Noor shot. That doesn&rsquo;t make any sense at all. None.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Shoots the woman dead.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the woman is an Australian citizen. Australia is going nuts. Minneapolis authorities are going crazy.&nbsp; But here&rsquo;s the kicker on the story. Mohamed Noor is a Somali American, the only member of the Minneapolis police force, as I understand it, that is a Somali. And when he was sworn in the mayor of Minneapolis went crazy saying this is a great example of an American success story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Mohamed Noor is now in the politically correct vase. And if this were a white officer, you know what would be happening.&nbsp; So there&rsquo;s all kind of implications here. We sort it out in the column. I hope you read it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I want to tell you this. They didn&rsquo;t shoot this woman because of a loud noise. Noor didn&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s not what happens. Will we find out what happened? Yes. But something is very wrong here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright let&rsquo;s go to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rory, on the message boards, Manhattan Beach, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rory, you go the Shell Back Tavern? It&rsquo;s a good place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill enlighten me and my wife. Why is the Republican party in trouble for not passing the Trump health care? I don&rsquo;t get it. The left has much more accountability than the right does.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's because the Republicans promised to get a new health care law. That&rsquo;s why.&nbsp;</p>
<p>John&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Health care is so discouraging at the moment. Is there any chance the Republicans get 50 votes to repeal Obamacare next week?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s a chance. There&rsquo;s a chance. But I wouldn&rsquo;t bet on it.</p>
<p>John, California&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;What is the impact if Trump allows the Affordable Care Act to collapse on its own?&lsquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>The impact is more chaos and, before that happens, higher premiums for working Americans across the board almost.&nbsp; So look, even if they repeal this next week, there is a two year grace period. You&rsquo;re going to have to wait two years before all of the Obamacare stuff goes out the window.&nbsp;</p>
<p>its just such a mess. It really it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Richard, Aurora, Colorado&nbsp;</p>
<p>I used to live there when I worked for channel 7 in Denver&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill I always look forward to the podcast. At least I can get a fair take on what is going on. I am so disgusted with the republican party I am going to switch to being an independent.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok. I understand it. I&rsquo;m an independent. The Republican party is in disarray right now. Can they regroup under Ryan and McConnell? I don&rsquo;t know. McConnell can&rsquo;t even get Kate&rsquo;s law past. Remember that? I mean, he wouldn&rsquo;t put it stand alone. I don&rsquo;t have any use for him. The Speaker, I think he is a sincere man. I&rsquo;m not down on him as I am on McConnell.&nbsp;</p>
<p>David Zimmerman, Lihue, Hawaii on the beautiful island of Kauai.&nbsp;</p>
<p>My favorite in the chain.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Hey Bill help me out. If private health care options under the Affordable Care Act ceased to exist, if Obamacare fails and does the Medicaid provision for coverage remain in place?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yes. All the Republicans were doing was capping it ok?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Medicaid for poor people will always be there. The Obama people wanted unlimited and everybody gets just come on in. You get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Republicans said &lsquo;wait a minute standards have to be higher. If you're not really poor you shouldn't be getting it. And we got to cap it.&rdquo; That's the difference.&nbsp;</p>
<p>James Roberston, Montevallo Alabama.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Rand Paul is neither a contrarian nor a libertarian. He is a malcontent.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm not going to comment. I am not a big Rand Paul fan but I'm not going to comment further.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Laura Preston, Salem, New Hampshire.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill I would like to respectfully disagree with you regarding the health care debacle. I'm excited to see the legislators actually doing something even if voters including myself getting what they want. I like the intense debate.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>I disagree Laurie. I mean you and I have a very respectful, because I do respect your opinion, disagreement. If the Republican Party is going to promise to repeal Obamacare and put something better in its place they better damn well do it.</p>
<p>All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Susan Collins of Maine is not a Republican.</p>
<p>Mike Boyd, Westminster, Colorado</p>
<p>&ldquo;When you say the failure to pass health care is bad for Republicans, I assume there's a better alternative.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>No. Because what was put forth at least had some fiscal responsibility. Read the Wall Street Journal editorial today. So I mean the bill is flawed. Sure. But that can be ironed out going forward. But the basic tenet of &lsquo;look we got to we got to get this thing under control and be as fair as we can&rsquo;. Now it's out the window. Now you've got Obamacare. That's what you got.</p>
<p>Michael, San Antonio, Texas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Was it politically incorrect of me to laugh out loud at Jane Sanders&rsquo; claim of sexism against her charge of fraud?&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know Mrs. Sanders got to be very upset. I think you got to take it as a humanistic point of view. The charge is bogus and has nothing to do with sexism. It did have something to do with politics.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s see one more.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from the message board. SMAC in Greensboro, North Carolina.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill my copy of Old School is having a wonderful second life. I'm reading it to a neighbor's currently in a hospital while her eyes are often closed. A smile is on her face.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Old School: Life in the Sane Lane will at least brighten up your summer so I'm glad you're doing it and being nice to the people in the hospital.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally Grace, La Palma California&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Just received my signed copy of The Day the World went Nuclear. Not only was it excellently wrapped and shipped but there's also a thank you card.&rdquo;</p>
<p>From my staff.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I'm still blinking. You and your crew are old school. Thank God for that. I have all your books. Your novel, the Killing, and the Legends and Lies books as well.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well I appreciate that Grace very loyal of you.</p>
<p>The Day the World went Nuclear is the kids book off Killing the Rising Sun. Number one on a juvenile list and all that. But we want to get the word out that it's a really worthy book. And adults will like it too. I mean these books are written for everybody.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Legends and Lies the Civil War - big hit even though the TV series isn't scheduled yet. I don't know anything about that now that I'm not there anymore but I know the book is really really good. On a par with the Patriots and the Old West so if you like those kinds of books check it out. Miller O'Reilly will be in Baltimore Tampa Vegas and Anaheim.</p>
<p>We'll link you right over the box offices should you want to see us live. And it's a blast. Thanks for being premium members. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. And we'll have Miller back again.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-19T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Obamacare Repeal Effort Going Up in FlamesBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Obamacare-Repeal-Effort-Going-Up-in-Flames/-185434880069733165.html2017-07-18T23:00:00Z2017-07-18T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday July 18th, 2017.</p>
<p>So big news today as the Republican generated health care bill goes down in flames. And then there's the House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senator from Kentucky, tried to float, 'well maybe we'll just repeal Obamacare'. More flames. So they both went down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this is a disaster - I would say a mini disaster - for the Republican Party. The President tweeted: &lsquo;Most Republicans were loyal, terrific and worked really hard. We were let down by all the Democrats and a few Republicans. As I've always said let Obamacare fail and then come together and do a great health care plan. Stay tuned'. Stay tuned seemed to be the message of the day. I'm going to play a soundbite by Vice President Pence in a moment that will encapsulate the damage control.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But first the reason that this Republican health care thing failed was because the Republican Party cannot force all of its members in the Senate to compromise. Whereas the Democrats can. Now very important that you read my <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/The-Swamp-Strikes-Back!/-150883774936323269.html" target="_blank">Message of the Day</a> posted on the website BillOReilly.com because that outlines why. I don't want to get into all that swampy politics now. But if you read it you'll see that the four Republicans who wouldn't support the overthrow of Obamacare did it because I guess they have principles. I'm not going to question that. But you know the greater good is not being served here because the working-class people are getting hurt. And now Obamacare is there and is likely to stay there for a while and Republicans let everybody down on their team.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right so let's hear how Vice President Pence reacted.&nbsp;</p>
<p>PENCE: "As the President said with his inexhaustible optimism and determination, "stay tuned". We will return. We will rescue the American people from the disastrous consequences of Obamacare and restore a health care system based on personal responsibility, free market competition, and state based reform. That's the American way to meet the health care needs of the American people in the 21st century. We're not going to stop fighting until we get it done."&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that of course was written for the Vice President. That's the mantra of the Republican Party. But damage has been done. There's no doubt about that. So let's bring in our guest from the Heritage Foundation. He knows a lot more about this than I do. Tommy Binion has been following it for years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right thanks Tom we appreciate it. Tommy Binion from the Heritage Foundation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now there was a little bit of good news for the Trump administration but nothing major.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's a poll out from Bloomberg and it asked favorability ratings of major people. Hillary Clinton is viewed favorably by 39 percent of Americans. That's all. OK. Trump is viewed favorably, this is a job approval rating, this is just him, by 41 percent. So Hillary is less popular than Trump after all of the craziness that has been directed at Donald Trump, Clinton is still less popular with the American people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Only 35 percent of men hold a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. 43 percent of women like her. 32 percent of white Americans like Hillary Clinton. 51 percent of non-whites like her.</p>
<p>Also in the plus Trump camp, the head of the border patrol union says quote "there's been a miraculous", that's his word, "drop in illegal immigration at the southern border under the Trump administration.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right so the man's name is said this is Brandon Judd. He told C-SPAN yesterday that what we've seen is nothing short of miraculous. "If you look at the rhetoric the President Trump has given, it has caused the number of illegal border crossers to go down. Something they've never we've never seen in the history of the Border Patrol."&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So you got to give him that. The border is more secure without the wall even going up. Remember the wall is narcotics based and there hasn't been a miraculous drop in narcotics smuggling in this country. The heroin industry is off the charts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right this is an interesting story that we're following but we don't have a lot of information. The House Intelligence Committee is interviewing Susan Rice and Samantha Power - both Obama administration big shots - about the unmasking of people caught on wiretaps. But they're doing it privately. They're doing it so that they can't say 'oh it's national security'. And so the House Intel Committee is interviewing the two ladies - and I don't think they've done it yet - Rice and Power, to find out if there was any abuse by the Obama administration in trying to find out what Trump and people were doing talking to foreign concerns.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you know I don't know how we're going to be able to get the facts of that story because it's a secret thing. Leaks maybe but most of the leaks are anti-Trump not anti-Obama. Maybe the leaks will do it and maybe some journalists will find something but I doubt it because the liberal press doesn't care about the story. They don't want to know what the Obama administration did unmasking American citizens caught up in FISA wiretaps. That's illegal by the way if it gets out. You're not supposed be able to do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This story is how shall I put it? This next story is symptomatic of what we're doing here in America right now. How crazy our society has gotten. It is reported that Jane Sanders, the wife of Bernie Sanders, is under investigation by the FBI for a loan she acquired for the University of Burlington. That was Burlington College where she was president. I think it was 2010 that she got multimillion dollar loan. Mrs. Sanders, who was the president, said 'look the college will pay it back because we have the donors to do that' and then it turned out they didn't have the donors. The college declared bankruptcy and now is being investigated. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Jane Sanders says that the reason for the FBI probe is its sexism. So the FBI is looking at the bank fraud allegations against her. And she says quote: "I find incredibly sexist that basically my critics are going after my husband by destroying my reputation and that's not OK". She said this to the Boston Globe. So it's sexist? I think that's absurd. I think it's political. I do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think that the guy who blew the whistle on Jane Sanders, I know this for fact, is a big Trump supporter. And he doesn't like Bernie. He doesn't like Jane. It's political. The FBI is not some Keystone Cops. You've got to have probable cause to get them involved. Sexist?&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I didn't hear it but Kelly Anne Conway said - and this was reported so I've got to cut her some slack because nobody reports fairly on Kelly Anne Conway - but it was reported that she said that some of her criticism is gender based. You know I think ladies, unless you have a smoking gun, you want to stay away from that because it's politically based.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kelly Anne, they don't like you because you're a Republican who supports Trump and that's what it is. If your name were Sidney Conway they'd be after you. And the same thing with Jane Sanders. You know, if Bernie, your husband, was your wife and you were a man - they'd still be going after you. It's political OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now finally there's a very strange story going on in Minneapolis and I wouldn't ordinarily report on this but it's bothering me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>An Australian woman named Justine Damond called the Minneapolis police on Saturday night saying that a sexual assault may be occurring near her home. Two Minneapolis officers respond and one of those officers is the first ever Somali American police officer in the Twin Cities area.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He allegedly shot Justin Damond dead from the police car.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I've been trying all day long to figure out what the police side is on this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this is a big thing in Australia. All right. Because she is an Australia and she was engaged to an American and this is going to be a big story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm not speculating on anything but it's very unusual for the police union not to put out the officer's side on a shooting like this. Very unusual.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And again the papers are reporting that the Somali-American officer shot the woman and - remember the woman was the one who called it in - and she was in her pajamas talking to them from the police car.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean I'm not going to speculate. I'm not speculating.</p>
<p>So there you're up to speed.</p>
<p>Now let's get into my favorite part of the No Spin News every day. And that is the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Two ways to reach me Bill at BillOReilly.com Bill, Bill at BillOReilly.com. Or the message boards which are really good and we really appreciate that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I will point out. We did not report tonight on Donald Trump Jr. Even though there was stuff coming out. Now there's eighth guy in the meeting. Some guy was you know, in some PR stuff. And I'm sitting here I'm going 'the story is dying out. No doubt it's dying out'. But they have to keep it going. They being the hate-Trump media. Somehow someway have to keep it going. So to be amusing to see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Always remember this - and I said this in the very beginning - any political campaign getting a letter from a PR guy saying 'Hey we got some dirt on your opponent', they're going to check it out. All right. And in a collusion situation, which is what the hate-Trump people are trying to drum up, there's got to be something on the other side.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Donald Trump has got to be given the Russians something to collude. All right? It's a together thing. What could he possibly recommend? His hair mousse? I don't know. And this was before the Russian hacking came out. Is before all that OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Janet Bolton in Casselberry, Florida writes "Bill I recently joined as a Premium Member for a month to check it out and I've become a bit addicted to hearing your take on political news. So far so good tonight though I feel you wobbled a bit on the Trump Jr. story. I may have not listened carefully but it seems that the initial reporting focused on the lawyer being a private citizen without government connection that this distinction was key to avoiding the appearance or actually qualifying as an inappropriate meeting to be schedule.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That is absolutely correct. That the PR guys said this lady wants to meet with you, Donald Trump Jr., and she's got dirt and she's not a member of the of the Russian government. She's a private attorney who does work for the Russians sometimes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But in that same e-mail the PR guy said the Russian government - this is where the info came from -because they want Trump to win. That's why that thing is still in play. But remember this is a P.R. guy, a British guy, writing this. Not Putin's brother.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gregory in the Philippines.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill I'm a Premium Member and have been for months. I do enjoy the podcast but I do not take all you say as gospel.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's good. I want you to think for yourself. But based on facts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"You claim by the polls that Trump's numbers are down. I have no faith in these polls. If history tells us anything it&rsquo;s that the polls are bogus referring to the election. I knew they were inaccurate then. I know they are now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK OK the ABC News poll that we cited yesterday for Trump 36 percent approval rating was not a good poll in the election. ABC obviously doesn't like Trump. Their sample is more Democrats than Republicans all of that's. And I don't tell you the polls are accurate. I just report them as a basis of discussion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I believe Trump's job approval ratings is - from what I can ascertain from all the polls - is about 40 percent OK. And about 55 percent disapprove. And 5 percent don't know what's going on. But again that 40 goes up fast if something like a tax cut happens.</p>
<p>So what you're seeing is an enormous attack on Trump and that is hurting his job approval numbers. I think that's accurate.</p>
<p>William in Temple, Texas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill you're using an ABC poll. They are one of the leading Trump haters. True true true. Of course you're going to poll only those folks who agree with them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now they can't do that because if they do that they can get in trouble with fraud. Now they can overweight it as they did - ABC and Washington Post did - but they can't say we're going to fix the poll. If they did that they could be arrested.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Valerie, West New York, New Jersey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>West New York is right across the Hudson River. That's why the address reads that way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Hey Bill I wish you would have more patience for Rand Paul. I don't see it as grandstanding when he stands up for principles. How long does this distaste for him go back? Are you sure your view of him was not tainted by your impression of his father? I like Rand just as much as I like you. I wish you two could get along.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ron Paul is a kook in my opinion. I did criticize Ron Paul when he ran for president. I don't think his son liked that and I respect that. If you're a son and your father is getting criticized by a commentator you don't like it. I think that's the root of this problem. But again I see a strain of stubbornness in Senator Paul that absolutely is hurting his party and I think the country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you know I appreciate the letter though Valerie it is a very very well thought out letter and I appreciate that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I want you guys to hold me accountable here. I mean this is a very one on one show. It's me, it's you, and your premium members and we appreciate that. You don't like something you let it fly.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right Glenn in Bakersfield, California.</p>
<p>"Bill booking Caitlyn Jenner. Don't you love us anymore?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I got a lot of mail on this. I want to talk to. Ms. Jenner about politics. Now I know that some of you don't like the exposition that you had a man - a prominent athlete who decides to become a woman - unsettling to many Americans. Absolutely. And unlike the media I respect that opinion. It is unsettling. You know it's gender and it's God and its creation and there are children. All of that is involved with this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But remember Ms. Jenner is a Republican Trump supporter and that's pretty interesting to me as a journalist. OK. So I wanted to talk with her about the reaction from her community - that's what they call it now - to her being kind of conservative and how that fits in with her lifestyle. You see what I mean?&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I thought the conversation would be worthy. I haven't seen that done. You know the liberal press they love any transgendered people and but they're never going to really ask questions and this is one that's different - -out of the norm - the whole thing is out of the norm. But anyway I know a lot of you - when I said that we're going to do that - were going urghhh and we respect your opinion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't know if that interview is going to happen. I don't know if she wants to come up against me but I would do it. We'll give you a fair warning and if you don't want to watch the podcast that day we understand. But I think it would be interesting.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tara Burkholder.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill I have to say I'm very disappointed in Congress, very disappointed in free press. I think I may have to jump on the Miller bandwagon and bail out of the USA completely."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Miller - I'm going to talk to him extensively on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Tomorrow on Thursday. Tomorrow is going to be about just what's going on this week. And then Thursday is going to be that Miller has bailed out now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He's not emotionally involved and he'll explain why and now Todd says, 'look I'm so fed up I may follow it'. I'm not in that realm. Ok I am still engaged. I still believe we're the greatest country and that we can overcome the horror that we're facing here with the political correctness, with the corrupt press, with Congress that can't do anything, with fractured political parties, with threats all day long against people like me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I still believe that we can come back. Somewhat. We're never going to come back to where we should be. But Miller is gone now. I mean, he does his satire and that's where he's going to stay. So it's going to be an interesting discussion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Todd I hope you check it out tomorrow and Thursday.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Robert O'Hara, Hampton, New Hampshire.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill just finishing up Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. Had some pretty great chuckles from it. Oh the way things work. Do you think the political discourse today is any chance of finding his way back to civility?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not civility as we once knew it. But it does have a chance if we can define the haters and have folks turn on the haters and punish them. Then it'll come back a bit.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You're already seeing cable news rating go like this for all three of them. Millions of viewers are going 'you know what, kind of had enough'. That'll be the first step. The newspaper industry is out. They're done. Newspapers in this country are not coming back.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Talk radio three or four guys dominate. It's around. But not what it was.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Cable news. I tell you what. I'm looking at those ratings every day compared to what I did on the Fox News Channel at 8:00. Nobody gets close because we gave you a fair shot. We were not hateful.</p>
<p>All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>George Cole, Naples, Florida. Nice town.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill I read something today about a woman by the name of Kamala Harris who's receiving big money from Democratic donors like George Soros with the 2020 bid for the presidency it's true. She's very smart - senator from California. Very smart woman. Very very left.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She's Elizabeth Warren's equal on the left end of the spectrum. Big money going in to her. She'll do it, she'll run. But Warren and Harris will cancel each other out. But good observation George. You're paying attention.&nbsp;</p>
<p>David Hughes. I know I'm going to say this town wrong in Wisconsin. After the Indians of course. Wisconsin.</p>
<p>"Bill as an excellent reporter with decades of proven success what is your take on reporters today writing on topics where they themselves have little or no practical experience? Is this a reason why some information does not get reported or gets misreported?&nbsp;</p>
<p>What a good question that is. One of the reasons that I have been successful for 42 years is because I am a reporter and I have traveled 80 countries and I have seen war up close and I have done a lot of things and I have what they call a frame of reference. Plus I'm a historian. I know what happened to America.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Our new book Killing England - out on September 19th - is going to give you a view of the Revolutionary War you never heard of. You never hear any of this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And so my knowledge is pretty substantial. Others don't have that. And it took decades to accumulate that knowledge. So their reporting - are they trying to mislead you? Some are. Some newspapers are. Some cable news networks are trying to mislead you. Absolutely. But are the individual people trying to mislead you? Some of them are ordered to do that and they do it but mostly it's editors and news directors who do that kind of thing. Not the individual. But the individual is not as nearly as sophisticated. That's why I like to talk to guys like Bernie Goldberg. He's been around. He is a journalist. You may not like Bernie. He may annoy you. But boy he knows what he's doing. He's been there. I'm going to talk to more of those people coming up by the way.</p>
<p>Sylvia Packham, Salt Lake City.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"As a Premium Member just watched a clip of the Miller tour. Bill I've watched you ever since you were on Inside Edition. Never knew you were that funny. You were a knee slapping, belly laughing, hilarious. Great timing. Thanks for the laughs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well I appreciate that.</p>
<p>You know my job is to talk about serious subjects so I can't be Don Rickles out here. But we do the shows totally different. I mean we give you good information but we have fun. So that's what you are seeing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The tour dates are Baltimore, Maryland on Friday September 22nd. Tampa, Florida, Saturday, September 23rd. Caesar's Palace in Vegas December 15th. Honda Center in Anaheim, December 16th.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Great. Again. I almost got through it without Holly the corgi barking - almost made it. Check her out on Twitter. She's a huge star.</p>
<p>Anyway if you want to see Miller and I - and it is funny and it is educational as well - we link you right over to the box offices.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Want to tell you that Legends and Lies the Civil War is going great. The Day the World went Nuclear - the children's book off Killing the Rising Sun - doing well. I'd like to see that book get a little more exposure. You know I can't go out and promote it. But it's a really good book.</p>
<p>Killing England out September 19th and Old School will amuse you greatly. And that's it. All right. That's the podcast for today. Back with Miller tomorrow. Thanks for being Premium Members.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-18T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Trump's Declining Poll Numbers; Healthcare DelayBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Trumps-Declining-Poll-Numbers;-Healthcare-Delay/809257348084009783.html2017-07-17T23:00:00Z2017-07-17T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday July 17, 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, a busy day, not a lot of news breaking, but I picked up, through the good research of my staff, some interesting stories to tell you about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The first one is, you probably heard that a new ABC News/Washington Post poll on Donald Trump. This is very predictable. 36 percent approval, job approval rating, down from 42 in April. And the opposition is about 58 percent don't approve of the job.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know after the beating that the president takes day in and day out it's about right. You know and they're still waiting for health care to pass and tax cuts to pass. You know, so if I were the president I would be concerned right now other than the fact that you've got to get that health care passed. But if he really didn't do anything in Russia, the president himself didn't have anything to do with them, so pass and it won't matter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Independents are bailing. Republicans are staying with Trump. Independents are bailing out on him a little bit. That's why the number is down from 42 to 36.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the second question in the poll was 'is the U.S. a stronger country under Trump than it was under Obama?'. 27 percent say yes it is. Forty eight percent say no it isn't. Same kind of thing. You know when you're bashed every single day, that takes a toll on public perception. So, he needs a couple of wins. Healthcare being the first of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Donald Trump Jr., if you <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Media-Witch-Hunt;-More-Campus-Madness/-446526642941475995.html" target="_blank">read the message of the day on the Web site</a>, can he squeeze another week out of this? They being the anti-Trump media. I don't think so. It was paltry today. Same old stuff today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>My pal Judge Napolitano came on and said, 'well there should be a criminal investigation because, in a campaign if a foreign government gives something of value to a person who is involved with the campaign, that could be a felony'. And you got to love Napolitano, he stretches that by saying maybe bad information about something would be something of value. No, no judge. The law was written to prevent bribes. Not information flow, as a bunch of attorneys have pointed out. Now I'm laughing because this is the kind of stuff that you'll never see in any other arena other than the arena of Donald Trump.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Hillary Clinton, and think back, I mean you know here she is Secretary of State and her people in Libya say look we really need more protection here and they say it over and over and over. And then one night the Ambassador is murdered and four other Americans killed. And she has no explanation of why she didn't respond to the petition to give more security to Americans in Libya. Nothing. It basically comes out that you know, they didn't want to do it and she didn't know about it and, you know, its life and death. Life and death. And nothing happened. Did it? Anything happen? Hillary Clinton got her reputation soiled but now is it, no special prosecutor.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then the e-mails, you all know the e-mails, on and on and on and on. I mean all kinds of chicanery there. Was there crime? I don't know. Comey says there wasn't but it seems to me that should have gone to a grand jury. Let them decide. You know there's the evidence. Was there a crime? But you know, on and on and on about destruction of e-mails, that top secret stuff getting into other people's computers. And yeah, it was covered particularly by the conservative media. And yeah, there was a lot of innuendo and a lot of accusations about Hillary Clinton. There was. But it wasn't anything like this. Nothing like this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that's because the anti-Trump media, the hate-Trump media, is using this as an excuse to try to get the President out office.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, it doesn't hurt them, it helps then. The ratings at MSNBC are way up. It helps them to do this. And there's absolutely no evidence that Donald Trump Jr. knew anything other than somebody, PR guy, British PR guy, goes 'hey we have some good info on Hillary, so show up and we'll tell you what it is'. 'And it comes from the Russian government'. All right fine. Show up, you know what it is, and everyone goes 'oh you should go to the FBI'. I got to tell you I'm pretty savvy, if I'm on a campaign and somebody says I got someone in the Russian government to give us some info, we'll give it to you. I don't call the FBI. I say 'okay, what's the info?'&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, when I get the info then you've got to vet it. So anyway.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Health care. Vote is delayed as you may know. John McCain, the senator from Arizona, 80 years old, blood clot removed from his eye, top of his eye. He's outta commission for a while. We don't know how bad that is. He is 80 years old. He has had other health problems.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They need McCain's vote. The Republicans are tottering in there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's not a bad thing that they are slowing it down, you know, maybe they can tweak it a little bit more.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Susan Collins from Maine is going to vote against it. This is a Planned Parenthood play. She won't admit it. Collins won't admit it. That's what this is about. Collins doesn't want to defund Planned Parenthood. That's what it's about. All right. So, Senator Collins up ay Maine, you know I kind of like you, but be honest about this. You knew there was going to be caps on Medicaid. Don't give me Medicaid. All right. Everybody who's a sane thinker knows that you got to cap Medicaid. You can't just keep going crazy on it. We got 20 trillion in debt. So, don't tell me that's what it's about. This is about you not wanting to defund Planned Parenthood. That's why you're going to vote against health care. That's wrong. That's destructive for your party. You want to take that tax, switch parties.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rand Paul, you're never going to get through. You're just not going to get through. Trump play golf with him. You know. And Rand Paul's a smart guy. And maybe his vision someday down a line would work but not now. Not now. You know if Rand Paul dances on the grave of the GOP health care bill and Obamacare is still the law of the land, that's about as bad as it gets. Gotta get Obamacare out of there. If this Republican thing is half baked, then you can improve it or throw it out two years from now. But Obamacare, with the premiums and everything, you've got to get it out of there. So, you know, I don't have any patience for Rand Paul. I think is a grandstander. I never liked him, he doesn't like me. Never had him on my program. We invite him a couple of times, he got an attitude like he knows everything. OK fine.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If the Republicans fail in getting Obamacare out of there the whole thing's going to turn around and Trump's approval rating will go down to 30 from thirty six. It is going to be bad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>O.J. Simpson, a despicable human being, up for parole on Thursday of this week. Serving nine years, he had to served nine years in a Nevada prison, for roughing up and stealing memorabilia. He said it was his blah blah blah. This is a karma play. Again, any sane thinking individual knows Simpson killed his wife and Mr. Goldman way back in the 90s. And the Nevada jury knew it. I said look you know the guy's a thug. He's going away. So, he served nine, you know taken O.J. Simpson out of it and just looking at the law, nine is enough for that crime. So, I expect him to be paroled on Thursday. He'll get out of prison sometime in the fall.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Now I covered that O.J. Simpson thing. There was no doubt, no doubt at all. And the racial aspect played into the jury in downtown Los Angeles and the jury just wouldn't convict him. But it was there. You know, look, the guy had a motive. The guy was in the proximity. He fled. And it was no doubt in my mind. No doubt.</p>
<p>OK. More politics. Kid Rock aka Robert James Ritchie.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So is he going to run for the Senate in Michigan. All right. Not the state Senate, the national Senate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Kid Rock. We met a couple of times. Pretty amusing guy. He's a Republican, big Trump supporter. He wants to go in and run. He'll be running against Debbie Stabenow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now would I vote for Kid Rock over Stabenow? I would. I would. Because with Stabenow you don't get anything, you get a zombie fighter - whatever the party tells me to do I'll do. Kid Rock, I mean I don't think we're talking about a Ph.D. in political science here, but based upon Michigan, what's happened in Michigan. Detroit, I don't think you do worse. So, Kid you got my vote.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Caitlyn Jenner. She's going to run for Senate, or she may, in California. She's a Republican Trump supporter. Now I don't know. I didn't know Bruce Jenner. I don't know Caitlyn. I don't know Bruce. I don't know any of them. I just don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And because of the Kardashian connection I stayed away. You know I've just stayed away. California is almost a hopeless cause at this juncture. If Ms. Jenner runs she'll lose. But good publicity for both Kid Rock and Caitlyn Jenner if they go.</p>
<p>Kid Rock by the way has a lot of stuff in the wind. A lot of commercial enterprises in the wind. And Caitlyn Jenner has a book. It did all right. But you know, I wouldn&rsquo;t mind talking to her. Maybe we get her on the phone. Would you guys like to see that? Talk a little politics strategy there for later on this week. We'll try to get her on the phone. Got a book. She should come on. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So now everybody saw the Trump phenomenon and got elected so everybody said, 'well I can do that'. It's hard. And if you do run for office and you do get the nomination you're going to get killed. You really are. I mean I, as a commentator, I got used to it after 20 years on the air. I got used to being attacked every day on the internet. I didn't watch it anymore. I told my people 'don't even tell me about it unless it's some I got to deal'. But it was on and on and on and on and on. And then it got organized and then money came in and it worked. And you're going to see more and more of that. OK.</p>
<p>All right. So that is the No Spin News.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now we go to the mail, one of my favorite parts, the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you want to reach me it's Bill at BillOReilly.com. Bill at BillOReilly.com or the message boards.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And we begin with that.</p>
<p>Mary is in Santa Fe New Mexico. Beautiful town.</p>
<p>'Bill, you hit the nail when it comes to placing limits on Medicaid. Most Americans have no idea the abuses that exist there. Not only all of our additional people brought into the Medicare system under Obamacare but also to virtually blank check available to Medicare recipients.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, what Mary is talking about is that under Obamacare there is no limit to Medicaid. So, the states can bill the federal government whatever they want and the Feds pay. States like California, that's significant. OK. They got 60 million people there now and they give Medicaid to illegal aliens out there as well. So, the Republican plan is 'look we are going to have Medicaid for the poor people and people are doing very well so they can get insurance. But it&rsquo;s going to cap it. It can't just be on and on and we can't be taking anybody there. There's got to be a reason to take you - very low income whatever. We just can't take everybody. So, you're right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Zeke, Gastonia, North Carolina.</p>
<p>"Very little mention of Senator Sanders' proposal for universal Medicare and Medicaid. So, Sanders wants both. All right. Basically, what you hear is that it's unfundable and would be a disaster. I haven't heard any details of his proposal regarding funding and execution of the plan. Has the senator presented any details for his proposal?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>He basically points to the UK and Canada. Their single payer systems as his guide, Zeke. I mean but what Sanders wants is really the Cuban system. That's what he really wants. The Cuban system covers everybody on the island, every Cuban citizen gets as much health care as they need or want, and what the cost is there is that the government takes your wages. Just takes it. And, in fact, they cap the wage. So, you can only earn a certain amount of money a month. That's communism. And then the rest of fruit of your labors goes to the government. So, you build a car in Cuba for example - you don't because there's no car plants - but if you did, then you get paid a certain amount of money. But once they sold the car the money that they got from the sale goes to the government. So, you can fund health care for everybody using that kind of system. Bernie says he's socialist. All right. So, his system is everybody gets what they want in health care. Cradle to grave. But in order to pay for that you've got to seize assets. You got to start seizing people's property, people's wages, etc. Got it? And that's Bernie's vision.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Michael Sullivan, Reynoldsburg, Ohio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Republicans now control White House, Senate, and Congress but still can't get anything done. If they fail to repeal Obamacare they will be committing political suicide."&nbsp;</p>
<p>I just read Mike's letter because I've said that, you know, four or five times now. Mike has it. It's going to be very hard because, remember, there are not enough Republicans to hold the Senate or the House. They need Independents coming over to vote for GOP candidates. GOP is Grand Old Party. And GOP candidates have to campaign outside the party because there just aren't enough Republicans there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You don't pass new health care law, Independents are going to go 'why bother with the Republicans? Why bother with them.' That's what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Frank, Staten Island, New York.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill your conversation with Sharyl Attkisson was very informative. How do we the American people retaliate against groups such as Media Matters and people like George Soros? To me I feel helpless just sitting and hearing about them I'm a counter-puncher and would like to do something."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look Frank, the first step is exposure. Ok. We have to expose these people who attacked me, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and others. You have to define it because a liberal media is not going to tell you that they know. But many times they work with these people so they're not going to expose them in any way at all.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Once we get it out there, and we will, but we want to do it in a way that's unassailable, that we've got every fact at our disposal. So we're gathering those facts now. Sharyl's book was a very good beginning. "The smear". Actually was right behind Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War on the New York Times bestseller list. So congratulations to Sharyl. You know, we've got to get it out there. We've got to tell everybody what the corruption is, what's happening to millions of dollars that are being spread around and people are making millions of dollars smearing other people and then we'll start to call for new laws to prevent this. But it's a laborious process. It's a long time in coming, its going to be a long time in dismantling.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from S.P. in Lexington, Kentucky/ Just using initials on the message boards. That's all right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill clearly you're fully in favor of the Mueller investigation. What is the underlying crime that Mueller investigating, collusion? Try finding collusion in the federal criminal code.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mueller is investigating crimes by Russian. That's what he's primarily doing. So they are the target. And then, it's if any American helped them. That's the collusion. So if any Americans helped them, the Russians, in undermining our election. then are in trouble. So if there was a deal - a quid for a pro - quid quo pro - this for that. There's no that. Although the liberals would say 'well Trump won the election and Russia made it possible'. You know it's a fantasy. It is a fantasy in legal terms. But Muller's job is primarily to get to the bottom of how the Russians got in and who helped them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if an American help them that American would be in trouble. Ok. You're not going to hear that analysis anywhere either.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elizabeth Green, Louisiana, right outside of New Orleans.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill I need to make a dinner reservation after the Tampa Miller O'Reilly's show. What time is this show over?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>See this is what I love. I love this podcast. It's personal. So now I'm helping Elizabeth Green, who&rsquo;s coming to Tampa in September, make a dinner reservation. So, the show starts, I don't know what time the show starts, but it's two hours and 15 minutes. So, on your ticket for the Spin Stops Here Miller/O'Reilly show in September in Tampa, it'll say show starts. Just add two hours and 15 minutes and you'll be in a parking lot. Unless you hate us, then you'll be here sooner.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, you have Baltimore. And that's September 22nd.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then we have Tampa at the Amelie arena September 23rd.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then Friday December 15th in Caesar's Palace in Vegas.</p>
<p>December16 in Anaheim California. At the Honda Center.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we are going to have a good time.</p>
<p>We are going to Miller on Thursday. It's going to be an epic O'Reilly Miller. It's going to be long because I want to get to the bottom of Miller. Miller is very sincere about bailing out on a country. I'm not. I'm still in the fray. But Miller's bailing and I want to get underneath that - if he really is bailing or what.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we're going to have a really interesting Miller - O'Reilly Thursday for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right what else we have here?&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have Steve in Rancho Cucamonga, California.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"It is 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. I just finished reading cover to cover Killing the Rising Sun. Wow. A great gift because I am a new Premium Member on BillOReilly.com. One thing I learned in high school from my senior English class teacher: There is nothing new under the sun. But Killing the Rising Sun confirms that man is the same yesterday and today."</p>
<p>True. I don't think human nature has changed since, I would say since Greece - Ancient Greece. I think that once Greece got underway with the Democratic thought and, you know, you just don't kill people for meat, there was a society that was built on human values. Human nature pretty much stayed the same. Got your good, got your evil. In the middle you got your weak - really can't make a decision. No judgements.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mark in Westchester Pennsylvania.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Bill how many freakin polo shirts do you own?"</p>
<p>I'm an old guy. I get a lot of polo shirts. See I'm not a stylish guy so if I have a nice polo shirt that I like I keep it. If it frays a little that's all right, I'll keep it. Some people give me little shirts once in a while for gifts and stuff, and you, know if I like a certain color I'll buy it. Today I'm more formal because I had got my picture taken this morning. That was a riot.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Professional photographers come in and take my picture, book covers, and web sites. If I'm going to do TV again I have to have stuff like that. But freak'n polo shirts Mark, 20. Which is four weeks. I could just wear a different one each week.</p>
<p>I've got about 80 suits here. And nobody is my size. I'd like to give them away. But I'm 6'4, 210 pounds. But I have a 36-inch waist and long legs. So nobody is my size.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I'm not sure yet. Taking the summer light. You know we're going to do the podcast through mid-September. September 19 Killing England comes out. I'll be on TV a lot that week and the week after with the book. As for doing a regular TV thing it&rsquo;s got to be the right thing. Lot of good folks out there. I just want to take a little time off clear my head.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is going great. BillOReilly.com podcasts are going great. We're getting tons of Premium Members so we're going to expand this a little bit. Get into a studio - do some Q&amp;A with folks - and all of that. I think that's going to happen in September.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So a lot a lot of interesting stuff but I can't be real specific about it yet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK we've got a good column, '<a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Donald-Trump-That-Wascally-Wabbit/8721395376097246.html" target="_blank">Donald Trump the Wasscally Wabbit</a>', on the media's obsession with Trump - that you can read on the Web site. Weekly quizzes up. In case you missed interviews last week with Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and Sharyl Attkisson, they are posted for you. Big summer clearance sale, so buy some gifts for other people and yourself. And Legends and lies the Civil War and The Day the World when Nuclear are the books we have in the bookstores now along with Life in the Sane Lane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Old School: Life in the Sane lane, if you haven't read that book, that's really fun beach reading. And the history books, you know what you're getting there. Very entertaining, very informative, you'll love them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think that's it. I think we covered everything. We'll be back tomorrow and we really appreciate you guys being Premium Members.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-17T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Healthcare; Interview with Sharyl Attkisson on Media CorruptionBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Healthcare;-Interview-with-Sharyl-Attkisson-on-Media-Corruption/-945133454998209378.html2017-07-13T23:00:00Z2017-07-13T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday July 13th already 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the Republicans are tweaking the health care bill. You know, as people are enjoying the summer, they're not really locked in on anything but the scandals and this Donald Trump Jr. thing is going to go away unless there's something new because there's nowhere to take it.</p>
<p>When they bring him into the Senate Judiciary Committee or whatever committee to ask him questions then it will perk up again. But believe me, Jonathan Turley, a brilliant law professor at George Washington University, has the best take on this. You get his column on TheHill.com. I also write for them occasionally.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right now the health care thing. This is very important for you. Because all of us are vulnerable to disease and accident and we need to have some kind of structure in America to deal with that in a fair way, that doesn't harm the country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So in many countries like Great Britain and Canada they have socialized medicine. The government controls it. They take a big chunk out of your taxes to fund it. They never balance a budget, they're always running deficits on it, because the people who don't make money, they are still entitled to full health care benefits and that's always been the problem. And it's a problem in the United States as well.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But We the People have rejected that government run system.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Up till now. The Democratic Party wants it. They haven't been able to impose it. They tried a kind of a hybrid with Obamacare. And the reason Obamacare didn't work was: one, it was way too confusing. Two, it spent so much money on those who don't have anything or refuse to work or whatever that the working people saw their premiums rise and rise and rise and rise. And so you're punishing the productive people by giving health insurance to those who aren't that productive. It may sound cruel but that's what it is. That's what it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So those Americans who want a welfare state, and there are millions of Americans who do, this is the far left progressive movement, they don't care about that. They don't care, because they're kind of quasi Socialist. You know, if you have it then we want it because the poor people need it. And that's what this is all about.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's about setting up a system that's fair to everybody. But you're never going to have a system like that, it's never going to happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So let's go over what you're entitled to. This is, I think, a very important exercise. Now the Republican Party is in bad trouble if they do not get rid of Obamacare. They can keep some elements of it. They've got to get rid of it in the sense that insurance companies have to come back and start insuring Americans. That's the big thing. If the GOP can't do that, which is why they're giving up two weeks of their vacations in August, then you can expect Armageddon in November.</p>
<p>Republicans will lose a lot of House races and in the Senate as well.</p>
<p>OK. The cost is, as I said, always the problem. In Canada, for example, you have to wait to get a hip replacement or a knee replacement. And it doesn't cost you very much but sometimes you wait for years. Here you can get those operations fairly quickly but the cost is through the roof.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what has to happen is that the insurance companies, number one, this is the most important thing, you have to have competition. All 50 states for all the insurance companies that want to sell health policies.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Therefore the competition drives the price down of health insurance.</p>
<p>We Can't have the government regulating one health insurance for this state, two for that state. No. It has to be across the board Capitalism when it comes to health insurance companies.</p>
<p>However, there has to be regulations that those companies have to follow. One of them is preexisting conditions so if you have cancer you just can't wander around and nobody's going to put you on the rolls. But you have to do it in a fair way. All right. And that is the crux of these bills.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if a person says &lsquo;well look, I'm not going to buy health insurance even though I can I can afford it, but I'm not going to do it until I get sick&rsquo;, it's not really fair. There has to be some kind of regulations on people as well. But in the end the preexisting condition, they're going to have to get covered somehow, and we'll see how they work it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The cost of the poor getting health care is born by Medicaid, that the states pay. And the Republicans want to cap it. See ObamaCare has no limit to it. We have a 20 trillion dollar debt and can't keep doing that. It's got to be a cap on it. And the states are the ones that have to do that. They have to say &lsquo;look this is how much you can get this is what you qualify for under Medicaid in Missouri, in Montana, in New Hampshire&rsquo;. They take it and the feds give them money and they pay their Medicaid bills. But there's got to be a cap on it. It can't just go on and on and on and on.</p>
<p>All right. So that the Democrats don't want caps but the Republicans have to get that under control.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Access to your doctor. A lot of doctors don't want to get involved the federal government. They're boutique doctors, you pay them a certain amount of money a year and they see you when you need to be seen and all that, but that's for the affluent. So you've got to incentivize doctors to take insurance policies and they will, they will. They'll take them, as long as the insurance policies are fair. Government has to oversee that to a certain extent. All right. So the doctor, if he opts out, and he has a right to as an American, if he opts out of government assistance, he can charge what he wants to charge. I mean again it's an American system.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the doctors that are in the Medicaid and Medicare and all that, there's going to be fees that are set. And also the pharmaceutical companies that put out drugs. The government has to oversee that. All right. Because they can charge for drugs that limit cancer or heart drugs, stuff like that. You can't be charging so much money that it bankrupts the insurance system, that it bankrupts individual Americans. It has got to be, &lsquo;yeah we want you to make a profit but there's got to be some regulation&rsquo;. So that's the oversight the government has to come in and apply. Some conservatives hate that. They don't want government oversight. I'm sorry, but when it's life and death you have to have it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Its like some people don't want speed limits. Germany on the Autobahn doesn't have any. But here government says you've got to wear seat belt, there's speed limits, they're trying, for the public good, to keep catastrophes down. Same thing in the drug marketing. There's got to be some oversight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Taxes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Obama slapped taxes on everything. Republicans are going to get a lot of that tax off. Alright, but there are so many things, like the capital gains tax, some of that's being used to supplement Medicaid. So they're going to have to basically mix and match on the tax.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You can't bleed everybody so much and still think the economy is going to expand or people are going to spend, they're not. So the taxes have got to be looked at hard. I don't mind surtaxes on certain things for the wealthy, for example, to fund Medicare and Medicaid but it's got to be fair. It's got to be reasonable. It's like paying gasoline tax so you can build highways. Americans say &lsquo;OK we'll give you a little gasoline tax keep the highways up&rsquo;. But what do we see? The highways aren&rsquo;t being kept up. Then you get a little teed off. Same thing in a medical range. You can tax some of these things a little bit to pay what you need for the Medicaid and all of that. But you can't go crazy as the Obama administration did.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mandatory health insurance is not going to happen under Republican policy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And again those who choose not to buy health insurance have got to pay some kind of penalty if they get sick and then they come and say I want it now. It's got to be some kind of penalty for that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it's a fairness efficiency program that the Republicans have to come up with. Now whether it knows the danger it's in, it's an enormous danger if it doesn't get anything done. Now McConnell knows, the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, he knows. Trump knows but Trump is basically saying &lsquo;look I've done what I can do. It's up to Congress to pass, if they don't do it don't blame me&rsquo;. That's where Trump is now. I think in the next few weeks, he's going to up his participation. But if you're going to hold out and you're a Republican senator and you're going to say &lsquo;well it's not perfect and well, you know, we should have this and conservative principles are that&rsquo; I&rsquo;ve got to tell you, boy, you&rsquo;re gonna lose the war. You've got to be reasonable.</p>
<p>Now whether they are or not I don't know because we have to wait and see how it all shakes down after this debate. The House will go along with the Senate bill, if the passes the Senate, the House will vote for it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's where we are on the on the health thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What you're entitled to is a fair health care premium. You're entitled to that. Access to doctors in your neighborhood, you're entitled to that. I don't think that's going to be a problem. You're entitled to, if disaster befalls you, you're entitled to, the insurance companies having to step up to some extent. I have catastrophic health insurance. You know, I can afford it. And you're entitled to the state to deliver fair, if you don't have any money, Medicaid. But not unlimited crazy stuff.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then they want to do a lot of the money for opioid, heroin all of that. They gave $45 billion earmarked for it. OK. But again, drug addiction, yes, it's better for society if the insurance companies can get you in rehab, but you can't bankrupt the country for it. If somebody is going to go to rehab four, five, six times, there's got to be a limit on it. Some personal responsibility. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And send me your e-mails and your message boards and I'll answer any questions next time around.</p>
<p>Second topic today is media corruption.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's really distressing. I mean I'm in this business 42 years. And the reason I'm not on the Fox News Channel anymore is because I was attacked. Attacked by Media Matters far left concerns who did a number of untoward things. And we're going to litigate some of those things down the road, so I'm not free to express exactly what happened to me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But what happened to me was appalling and it was shocking to me. And I didn't have a support system that I had a year ago to fight this off &nbsp;and I didn't know that. So anyway, I'm better off. I'm better off doing what I do now than being in an environment where I was not protected because I'm putting out a commentary every day. I need protection.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right.</p>
<p>So who are these terrible people who are undermining the media and who are attacking people with whom they disagree?&nbsp;</p>
<p>A woman, a great reporter, named Sharyl Attkisson, used to be at CBS, left CBS, now works for Sinclair, has written a book called The Smear.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She's got it nailed down. She missed a few things. But overall, if you read this book, you're going to know that the left wing media is now colluding with these far left Media Matters operations and other operations to destroy political opponents both elected and in the media.</p>
<p>Sean Hannity, as we've discussed before, was very close to having what happened to me, happen to him. But he fought back and he fought back effectively. He saw what happened to me. And he's a gutsy guy. Whether you like him or not Hannity puts forth a very strong point of view and he hit it head on and he survived it. But they were gunning for him, his sponsors, everything else.</p>
<p>So anyway, I read Sharyl's book and I want you to read it, but before you do, I want you to hear my interview with Sharyl Attkisson that I did a couple of days ago. Let's roll it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>((INTERVIEW))</p>
<p>So there you have it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And again, my situation will be clarified in the next month or so. You know, it's frustrating me to sit here and not be able to tell you about it. But there's a lot of legal stuff involved.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's one good story I want to tell you about as we approach another summer weekend. In Panama City, Florida, nine people were swept away by a current.</p>
<p>Now I'm a former lifeguard and I got caught a current down in the Bahamas one time and it is horrifying. You get caught in a riptide, a rip current, boom you're out of there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So nine people, nine beachgoers, including two children and a 67 year old grandmother, boom, they're out and they're yelling. No lifeguard on the beach. So people in the water and then on the beach they see all these people in trouble getting swept away. So what do they do? They form a human chain. It's amazing.</p>
<p>I want to get the exact stats here. Eighty people from the beach formed this human chain to go out and rescue these people who are being caught in a rip. And they get them all out.</p>
<p>The lady, the 67-year-old grandmother, apparently has a heart attack but she's OK. I mean they got her out.</p>
<p>This happened last weekend, Saturday. What an amazing story and what it says to me about Americans is you know, when we're confronted with something that is bad and horrifying we use our heads and we swing into action.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So all of them were saved.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All nine people swept out in the rip were saved and it's just a great story and I know you probably heard about it but I wanted to put my stamp on it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know I, as I mentioned, was a lifeguard - water safety instructor - and I had one kid that I saved and I told you the story and I'm not going to go over it again. But the ocean in particular, you got to respect the ocean. When you go into the ocean, and I do all the time, I'm a big ocean guy. You've got to say look I respect you and I'm going to be very cautious in what I do here because this is not my terrain. You know, you swim out above your height line in an ocean you better know what's going on out there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In a pool you can use go side to side, you can go over your head, you can go off the diving board. In an ocean you better know, you better know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And take a board, even if you have to put on a little lifejacket, and I know it looks dopey but it's a little belt or something. If you're going to swim out beyond the breakers, if you're going to go out far, you have to have something. Because it is, you know, it's not playing around out there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's that. Now let's do some mail, one of my favorite parts of the No Spin News every day.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>John Retoll is in Savannah, Georgia. Nice town.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The conversation between you and Glenn Beck was worth the price of Premium Membership.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Thank you John.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The podcast format allows for unhurried back and forth where real points of view can be examined you could not have done that on television. Your analysis of the Trump Jr. issue is why I made it a point to listen to you for years. You strip away the emotion, weigh the facts, and reach a conclusion. I have a tough time doing that. That's why I listen to you. Really good stuff much appreciated.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Yeah, the emotion part is the key to my analysis and my success over a 20 year period on cable and now on the internet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't have a rooting interest when it comes to powerful people.&nbsp; I don't. And that goes to corporations as well. All right.</p>
<p>When I worked for the Fox News Channel I kept my distance from the corporation because the deal we had was they didn't interfere and they did not. They did not interfere in my editorial presentation. Some may call it ranting. But I'm not in business to help corporations or politicians. I'm in business to look out for you. And I think you believe it or you wouldn't be Premium Members.</p>
<p>William Frazier, Austin, Texas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I'm surprised I haven't heard you say, O'Reilly, how hilarious the Russians must think of this whole deal. They have got us in an emotional frenzy. I feel both parties need to step back and recognize yeah the Russians got as good and move on.&rdquo;</p>
<p>OK, look, I'm not willing to say that Russia doesn't bare a responsibility for trying to subvert our election process or create chaos, which is the same thing. So I support the sanctions that Congress is laying on Russia, the economic sanctions. I think these people have to be taught a lesson and those economic sanctions are going to hurt 'em.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, whether President Trump wants to have a good relationship with Putin or not it's up to him. But if Putin misbehaves again I expect the president to slap him hard.</p>
<p>Paula Trekoff, Homer, Alaska.</p>
<p>Homer, great town.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m reading about Donald Trump Jr. and his Russian friends in the press I can't help but wondering what the reaction would have been to Hillary Clinton meeting with anyone.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Look I don't think you can always inject Hillary Clinton into any kind of press scrutiny of Donald Trump. A lot of conservative people do that, Republicans do that.&nbsp; I think it's a waste of time. I will tell you this, that Hillary Clinton's people, maybe not her directly, but she certainly knew about it, did the most dastardly awful things in that election.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They were awful. God awful. And she knew. She hung around people like David Brock from Media Matters. I mean you don't get lower than that. So, you know, if the Democrats think that they don't have a deficit when it comes to elections, crazy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tom Kangsalosi, Largo, Florida.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I've been watching the confirmation hearing for the new FBI director.&nbsp; My wife has a question. Who are these younger people sitting behind the senators? I guess they were minions who helped the senators prepare the questions.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's right. That's who they are. Senators staff. I wouldn't call them minions. They're bright. Senators hire bright college kids to research, or younger people, they pay them, because they need all the research. You don't think the senators are researching? They're not. They're in the gym or they're going out to dinner. These younger people are doing all the research for their questions and that's who's sitting behind them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Rebecca Hill, Las Vegas, Nevada.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Bill love the podcast. Just finish Old School: Life in a Sane lane. Loved it. We'll be seeing you in Vegas December 15th at Caesar's Palace.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well Rebecca I can't thank you enough. I'm glad you liked Old School.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We had fun writing it and unfortunately the book was interrupted by this soap opera I had to go through with the folks at the Fox News Channel. But you know it sold very, very well. We want to continue to bring attention to it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm glad you're going to be at Caesar's. It's sold out every year. There's like 300 tickets still available. You know, get on it if you want to see us there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Legends and Lies: the Civil War, doing extraordinarily well despite the fact that TV shows not on. When it's going to be on I don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Day the World went Nuclear is a children's book off Killing the Rising Sun, but it's for 9 to 90. That book is again doing really, really well, number one on the juvenile chart. It's been that way for four weeks. The Day the World went Nuclear. You'll like it even if you read Rising Sun. This is a worthy book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the shows, we talked about Caesars, see everybody in Baltimore and Tampa in September and then in Anaheim, huge show at the Honda Center, in December. We'll link you right over the box offices if you want to get those tickets. They're great, great gifts. You'll have a blast.</p>
<p>So I want everybody to have a really excellent weekend. You know, relax, try to get away from the madness and we will be back here on Monday talking to you.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-13T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Trump Jr. Scandal; Laura Ingraham OpinesBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Trump-Jr.-Scandal;-Laura-Ingraham-Opines/-873084215043258184.html2017-07-12T23:00:00Z2017-07-12T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 12th 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I look a little red. I'm not sunburned. I don't like to go in the sun because I have Irish skin. And my father actually passed away from Melanoma skin cancer. So and you know, over the years I've had to have a lot of stuff cut off of me. So I stay out of the sun. It just that you know, we're doing this in my office and sometimes the lights don't match up. But that's why I look a little red. I'm not embarrassed.</p>
<p>All right. Let's talk about Trump Jr. We got Laura Ingraham standing by; we'll to talk to her about this and other things. But I want to get a few things down. I will read you some of the mail on Glenn Beck. We had an interesting back and forth yesterday about the Trump Jr. situation and we had a lot of reaction to it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right the first thing is that the hysteria is dying down because hysterical people can only keep it up so long. They do a good job of keeping it up. But after a while, you know, it can't be that level of hysteria. You know it's like watching Scream One, Scream Two, Scream Five, by Scream Six you're kind of like <em>OK you know we got to the guy with the knife he's chasing the teenagers.</em> No crime was committed. If you read the message of the day I kind of lay it out. I always put myself in a position of people I'm reporting on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if I'm Trump Jr. and I get <em>'hey we got a big expos&eacute; on Hillary Clinton. You got to come to a meeting and find out about it</em>', I'm immediately suspect because I'm Trump Jr. My name is Trump. You know when, I got in this situation a whole bunch of times and I would send my producers. Send people I trust but I wouldn't go. Because I don't want to get caught up in any kind of drama or set up or anything like that. That was mistake number one. Trump Jr. should not have gone. He brought Kushner and Manafort with him, but that doesn't help.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He should've sent out somebody to talk to this Russian lawyer and said '<em>look, what do you got? Is it legal? Did you tap anybody? We can't be involved in any of that</em>'. You got to protect yourself. That's number one. Number two he should have put this on a table, we've talked about that before. As soon as a Russian hacking things and said <em>'look I met with this Russian woman, they said they had dirt. They didn't</em>'. Just get it behind you.</p>
<p>Alright, Cause I it's going to come out. Whatever you did if you're a Trump person is going to come out. It&rsquo;s the way of the world. All right. And you know, I'm not buying into this leaks came from the White House business by the way. Not buying into that at all. I think it came from the PR guy in England I think he did it but that's speculation. But you know, he had, it was too neat. They handed over the New York Times, it was too neat. It didn't come from, I don't think from government people. And then there is the hysteria.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Newsday is the newspaper of Long Island where I live. Used to be crazy left. Got sold a couple of times. Now it's moved left but it's not crazy left. Now this is their Lead editorial on Trump Jr. I'm going to quote it. "<em>Let's be clear this is not fake news. The information is from e-mails written by, received, and released by the president's son</em>." So far so good. All right, that's true. Here's where they go off the rails. "<em>It can't be dismissed as usual opposition research gathering. The offer was from a foreign government</em>."&nbsp;</p>
<p>Not true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Newsday is stating the offer was from a foreign government. That's not true. The offer came from a PR guy with a tabloid past. He said it was from the Russian government but it wasn't the Russian government, as this editorial would have you believe. It was from an intermediary of dubious credibility. All right. That's number one. All right. "<em>The offer was from a foreign government just one more meeting with Russians that President Donald Trump his family his top aides keep having to own up to. After getting caught for misrepresenting the encounters</em>." He didn't meet with Russians. He met with a woman who is a Russian lawyer. And she said I don't have anything to do with the government, the government didn't send me, and, you know, she said it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I don't know if it's true or not. Beck thinks that she might be a KGB person or is it KGB anymore or whatever the initials are but this editorial is misstating what happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. It's misstating. The offer wasn't from a foreign government. It was from a sleazy PR guy. And he didn't meet with Russians. He met with some lawyer who the PR guy set him up with.&nbsp;</p>
<p>With the enticement of <em>'Hey we got stuff from Hillary and you know it might come from the Kremlin. We don't know you know. You know, I think it did</em>.' And so they, you know, Trump Jr. tells Hannity <em>'Well, you know, I wanted to find out. I was curious about it</em>.'&nbsp;</p>
<p>I would have been curious too. But again I would have layered it, all right, because my name was Trump. Your name is Trump they're going to try to get you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK so the facts are, let's just, and then we'll get to Laura Ingraham, the facts are these. There was a meeting between Trump Jr., Manafort, Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer. Nothing was discussed about Hillary Clinton at the meeting. Although that was promised it never happened. OK. Meeting was 20 minutes. Trump Jr. did not speak about the meeting until somebody leaked this to the New York Times. There's no crime. There's no sedition. There's no treason. Collusion, look it up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For there to be collusion, there has to be a quid pro quo, a this for that. All right, you're getting something, you're giving something. You collude. All right so there's no collusion legally speaking. Did Trump Jr. want bad stuff on Hillary? Absolutely. Did Hillary's people do disgraceful things to try to get Trump? Absolutely. That's our political system. All right. And I'm not saying you justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior as many of you did in your e-mails. OK. I'm just saying that's the system. If a candidate is given an opportunity to get bad stuff on the opposition that candidate's going to do that.</p>
<p>OK now, Laura Ingraham is a, you know, a very good voice for the Trump administration but on board from the very beginning. Yesterday I tracked Miss Laura down. And here's what happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Now I want to know you were a Trump supporter very early on. You took a chance with him. Now seven months in. Are you satisfied with Donald Trump's performance as president?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> I think it's been really good. I mean, I think there are amazing and positive things happening even without the legislative result that they need. With both Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, Bob Lighthizer of the trade rep, and even Gary Cohn. All three of them together are doing fantastic things on trade. We're seeing real results with the partners not cheating as much, not taking advantage of us as much, even without having rewritten NAFTA, but merely because we pulled out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and we told them we're going to do America first trade now, they want to stay on our good side. We've already seen a great return on that, obviously illegal immigration is down.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> We reported that yesterday. So you're looking at it from a very micro point of view. The culture is changing, you're thinking, in favor of the United States. But what about the chaos that we see in healthcare, for example? So now they're saying well August 1st we may have something, but the Republicans can't get it together. And the perception to the voter, who doesn't follow it as as closely as you do is that the president may not have control over his own party. And if this doesn't get passed then I think the Republican Party is going to be damaged.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> I think that it was obvious before the election from everything we saw with Ryan not campaigning with Trump and. McConnell not really helping Trump much, that there was never going to be a majority of Republicans who are populist conservatives. That's not going to happen. But nevertheless, I mean, I think he still has an enormous amount of influence on Capitol Hill. But you're right, it dissipated when the administration stepped on its own narrative and steps on its own message, or present a confused or muddled or inconsistent message on health care.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We don't have the luxury of having GOP unity and the Democrats in opposition have full unity resistance. So the Republicans need to have... need to have and don't, have a unified, clear path forward for health care freedom in the United States. I call it freedom because we should be the party of freedom. More freedom, not less freedom. The other people want to control every aspect of your life. We actually don't. We believe the people will do much better if we have transparency and openness in a free market and real competition. But we're not really selling that.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> You're right, there's a Balkanization of the Republican Party and it is now going to come to a head, because if they don't get health care passed, excuses are going to walk. I mean, folks are going to go, eh we gave them a chance. We voted for him. They're just like the Democrats. They're not looking out for us. We're not going to get anything done. And then the tax cuts, which are absolutely vital. I mean those things are pushed back and back and back and back. So you may be right on the culture change that Trump has instituted, that's helping Americans, but Americans don't see that. They just see the big things, the bold headlines, and right now, Trump really needs to get this health care thing passed and then segue right into health care, tax cuts. And you know what happens in August, we're like France now. Everybody takes off, everybody's gone, they don't pay attention.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let me ask you about this ongoing media hatred. And we saw it again, as soon as the president gets back from G-20 in Europe it's another Russia thing. I know the New York Times held that back, until he, you know, the hour he stepped off the plane into USA, bang, we have another big Russian collusion headline and we'll draw it out for another week. You know, implying that he's a corrupt guy and the election was a fixed thing and the Russians did X, Y, and Z. That's never going to stop. It's never going to stop now.</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> I think you're right. It's not. They're getting these leaks, documents, or access to the documents, description of the documents from most likely people who are involved in the investigation.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> I disagree with you there. I think they came from the Russian Hustler... Goldstone, the British tabloid guy. I think he leaked it. I think he leaked those things. So I don't think the investigators even have this stuff. So I think Goldstone, who if you look at his background, is a hustler.</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Sleazy.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Yeah, he's a hustler, A tabloid British, tabloid guy, he did this, he put it all out. All right. So that's just my opinion, but I think it happened anyway.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> All right we'll see. But regardless of the matter, I mean people like Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney in New York. The fact that he's now on the Mueller team... they have put together a legal powerhouse squad of attorneys who are not... It's not about getting at the truth. Everyone has this altruistic notion that these special investigations, oh we're going to get into the truth, it's going to be justice. No it isn't. There was no underlying crime here. Even if Don Trump Jr. knew that this woman was somehow Putin's best friend and decided to meet with her. There's no crime. It's ridiculous. No crime. You might say it's stupid judgment, and that's fine if you want to make that argument...if there's no underlying crime you can't have obstruction of justice.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So all of this goes back to the original understanding of this whole case. Again, I think going back to your other point, Bill, you're right. If he were... if he had just been president with the current facts on an island and you never even heard from him when it came to social media, it was an island without any internet service, he would probably not have an independent counsel, special counsel. He would not be in all this hot water. And he would be well on his way to getting some legislative victories in place. But I think a lot of these wounds are self-inflicted and then the fires are further fanned by the media, who are out to get him.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill: </strong>There's no doubt about it. But remember one thing about the Mueller investigation, no matter who he hires, they're going to have to come up with facts. They're going to have to have facts in their conclusion of whatever they decide to put out there. Opinion is not going to matter anymore because the well has been poisoned. The Trump supporters believe that Mueller and his guys are, you know, anti-Trump or not sympathetic to Trump, whatever. So Mueller himself is smart enough to know if he doesn't have facts he's going to have to say that. It can't be another Scooter Libby, kind of contriving something and bringing it in. That's not going to be at play with the American people. They don't want this election overthrown by politics, and that's what it's about.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Bill, don't we also want to know if this sleazeball, Goldstone, tried to contact Hillary? I do. Because, I mean, the chances were at that point in time in June of last year that Hillary's was going to be president. Very few people thought that Donald Trump was going to be president.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm just saying, if your goal is to influence the consideration of this Magnitsky Act, which is what she was doing, it wasn't about dirt on any one of the Magnitsky... if that's your goal, then you're going to, maybe you'll go to Trump on the off chance that he wins and try to plant that seed in his mind. But you're also going to go with someone that has a chance of winning.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And explains what that is. Explain what that is.</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> It's the act, yeah, the Magnitsky Act was passed four years ago in Congress and what it did was that it froze the assets of key Russian officials, key Russian officials who had major holdings in the United States, prevented them from coming into the United States. This was all based on the torture in prison... and I guess alleged... but I think it was torture of a human rights activist. I think his first name was Sergei Magnitsky.</p>
<p>And so the Congress came forward and said this guy was tortured, it was a human rights violations, we're going to slap... you're not going to be able to come into this this country, we're going to seize you're assets, period. And Putin responds by stopping all Russian adoptions. And that was his, that was his smash back at what the Americans were doing. It was 60000 Russian adoptees living in the United States and thousands thousands and thousands were waiting to be adopted in Russia orphanages. And so that's how that went. It was a tit for tat. And so there are a lot of business interests in Russia who want this Magnitsky Act thing lifted so they can go back to doing their regular business in the United States.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And that's what this discussion was about. OK.</p>
<p>We thank Laura Ingram again for talking with us and her website again is <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" target="_blank">LifeZette</a>. <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" target="_blank">LifeZette</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-12T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Donald Trump, Jr. "Bombshell"; Glenn Beck JoinsBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Donald-Trump-Jr.-Bombshell;-Glenn-Beck-Joins/840749024923636484.html2017-07-11T23:00:00Z2017-07-11T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday July 11th 2017. It is a big news day because Donald Trump Jr. is going to federal prison.</p>
<p>If you listen to CNN or MSNBC or read the New York Times. Alright he colluded with the Russians to undermine the presidential election of 2016. So that's the hysteria and I mean it is hysteria.</p>
<p>I was watching it this afternoon on cable. Even Fox News it got hysterical. So here's the story. All right. Back in June of last year, 2016, a guy named Rob Goldstone a Brit tabloid journalist turned PR person, alright, wrote an e-mail, a series of e-mails, to Donald Trump Jr. saying that he Goldstone could put Trump Jr. in touch with a Russian lawyer. Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya.</p>
<p>And since I don't want to say that name again I'm going to just call her Natalia.</p>
<p>Natalia according to Goldstone had information about Hillary Clinton that was damaging and that the Russian government wanted Trump Jr. to have it because they are rooting for his father to win. This is the e-mail going back and forth between Goldstone and Trump.</p>
<p>Now remember this is before any Russian collusion stuff had ever come out. Trump is getting this stuff raw. So Trump emails back 'hey if this is true that you have damaging information against Hillary Clinton you know I love it'. A meeting was set. OK.</p>
<p>Now these e-mails were released by Donald Trump Jr. today after the New York Times broke this story over the weekend that Trump Jr. had somehow colluded with this Russian lawyer who apparently is friends with somebody in Russia. I don't quite know. OK you got the basic premise?</p>
<p>Alright so the meeting happens in the Trump Tower and Jared Kushner, Trump Jr's brother in law, and Paul Manafort, is involved with the campaign time, Trump campaign, there there. Woman has nothing. The lawyer has nothing.</p>
<p>&nbsp;No dirt on Hillary, didn't have anything and she's there to lobby the Trump people to do something about sanctions that were imposed against Russian oligarchs and in turn Putin said no more adoptions, no more Russian kids can come over to the USA and this woman wanted to stop all that. So Trump Jr Manafort and Kushner go listen to over 20 minutes and said see ya. That was it! That was what happened.</p>
<p>According to all these e-mails and the Russian lawyer who shows up on NBC and NBC says to her 'Natalia were you working for the Russian government?' No. 'Were you there at the behest?' No. No. I don't have anything to do with it. But Trump Jr. wanted dirt on Hillary Clinton. Of course he did.</p>
<p>So put yourself in a position that you're running for office, against anybody, and you get a call from somebody 'I got really good stuff, because we're rooting for you against your opponent. so meet me at the old oak tree and I'll give it to you'. Well you're going to send somebody to pick it up or you'll go. Right? Ok. Particularly if you know this guy Goldstone.</p>
<p>You know he's known in these circles. And so he's he's the PR guy.</p>
<p>Now, he probably got paid for setting this meeting up by the way. Goldstone did. Now what about the leaks how of the New York Times find out about they found out about it? Because Goldstone leaked it. Now that's speculation but I know it's true. He leaked this because this wasn't even on the radar screen in any U.S. investigation so far down the line.</p>
<p>I mean you know. Now Mueller has to deal with it and they'll trot Don Trump Jr. in front of the committees and all of that. OK. So now I'm not shilling for the Trump administration. You guys know me well enough I don't do that. I mean if I thought that this was a collusion story or there was something here that needed criticism I would do it. And I want Mueller to interview all three of those men who attended the meeting. And Natalia. Drag her in there too. And Goldstone. Get them all in and ask him anything you want.</p>
<p>But this is so insane what is happening here in this country. Where a story like this, and I have laid it out to you all facts. OK. I'm just not using the facts to condemn Donald Trump Jr. or his father or the administration, which is what the media is doing 100 percent.</p>
<p>You know it is so insane I'm reading this stuff and I'm going are you kidding me. Now it may turn out that maybe Donald Trump Jr. was doing something untoward, maybe. But again he himself released this whole e-mail chain and I read it. I'm saying OK well you know the guy's acting like a guy who wants his father to win the election. That's what he's acting like. Alright. He knows this Goldstone. Goldstone sets him up with Natalia. Natalia shows up in New York City and got nothing. So they listen to her you know for 20 minutes about the Russian adoptions and lifting the sanctions against the oligarchy and I all go 'hey we'll see you later'. And that's it. Now the one thing that Trump Jr did wrong that I know about, again he could have done other things, and Muller as the guy has got to decide that, was that he didn't put this out. Hey listen, this is right to you Trump administration, if you went to the Russian Tea Room, if you watch from Russia with love, alright, if you know any Russians at all, tell, put it out on your tweet or on your Facebook. Anything Russia, put it out, because somebody is going to leak it.</p>
<p>All right. We have it down everybody. That was six minutes and 45 seconds that I did this. All right.</p>
<p>I guarantee you on cable news you will have 24 hours of 'oh my God, this is collusion'.</p>
<p>Let's bring in a voice of reason for maybe three or four people in the world Glenn Beck.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>I mean and I treat you so nicely. And what do you expect me to say after that Bill? What do you think.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Come on Beck, that was a good line. Now Beck does a nationally syndicated radio program, has its own TV network, The Blaze. He's a huge guy. All right. Now first of all I want you, I ask for you specifically, to analyze my analysis. Did I do anything wrong? Did I miss anything?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Oh my gosh did you miss anything. Yes. However I want to say this you are exactly right. You dealt in the facts but you missed a few facts that changed things. At least in my perspective a bit.</p>
<p>First of all the information this memo or this e-mail chain was released this morning after the New York Times called because whoever gave them the e-mail said you have to call Donald Trump Jr. and get a comment from him before you release it. They comment they got a comment. He had no comment. He released it before the New York Times. So it's like 'oh my gosh there's nothing wrong, I got to release this' the New York Times was going to. Second what you're missing here on the timeline is the day that he met with this girl is the same day, later on in the evening, that Donald Trump started to do a couple of things. One it's the first time he starts saying about the missing e-mails and what else don't we know for Hillary and also that day they leave this meeting and they go in to start writing a speech on crooked Hillary and how Hillary has a foreign government gathering information that is a blackmail list, blackmail file. That's an odd coincidence.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Well let me stop you just for a second. So, I want to just explain what you're talking about. Because some of, some of our viewers may not remember that there was at this time, and I believe this guy Goldstone was involved with this alright, there was at this time rumors that Donald Trump had done unsavory things in Moscow when he was over there. There were rumors and again they ran wild with it.Well, that's the beginning of it. Alright.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>All right. Came out later. But that was when he met not Goldstone but the actual oligarch. It's it's that visit to Russia that somebody later pushed out and said 'look he's you know he was having crazy things with animals.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Right. And it turned out to be bull.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Yes it turned out to be bull. But that didn't happen at this time period. So he wrote, they not only started to write the speech, Donald Trump later then went on and said, that night, said what's crooked Hillary doing with missing e-mails and who has it. Then he, the next day, he announced that he was going to give this speech on Hillary Clinton in two or three days. Unfortunately what happened was the day before his big speech the day he was before he was supposed to give that speech Wikipedia, which I said at the time is in bed with Russia, Wikipedia is a front organization for the Russians, they drop all of this information nearly every day.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>You mean WikiLeaks WikiLeaks. Not Wikipedia. Wikileaks. OK. Yes. They got they started pumping out all this information right. Go ahead.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Drop that information the day that Donald Trump is supposed to, the day before Donald Trump's supposed to give his big speech where he says 'oh my gosh there's a state out there that has all these really bad things'. What happens he doesn't give that speech because that's when the Orlando shooting happens that next day. So he has to wait three days later to give that huge speech. Now that's the real time table of that week. But let me just let me just add this Bill. First of all, it's illegal to meet with foreign nationals who are going to give you anything of value. Now I know there's no money value on this. But how much value is dirt on your on your own alone?</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>I don't know what law that violates if you're a private citizen. Remember.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Campaign finance law and the and foreign nationals have no business in there and that is our campaign finance law. Manafort, I can give you that Donald Jr.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Yea but it's money. It's money. Look Jonathan Turley. You know Jonathan Turley? He's the big law professor. OK. He writes an article today in The Hill and Turley's been very fair. I want everybody to check this out. Writes an opinion column and he says ... he's good. And he's smart and he says 'look if there were money involved OK then what Beck just said absolutely true. But if it's just information, if we have some information, alright, which is what these e-mails show, anybody can meet with anybody and get information'. It's it's the first amendment when you are talking about.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>I got that. But you're talking about a foreign national that is supposedly giving you information from the Russian government.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Woah, woah, woah, woah. That that was only said by Goldstone alright. Goldstein said that.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>I understand that. But here's the problem. Here's the problem. He gladly accepted the meeting and when he thought he was getting that he gladly eluded to 'I'm happy to collude with you. It will be better if you release that in August'. That's what he says in his e-mail. So while he may say, while he may say there was nothing that was given to them in that meeting, we have to believe the people who have told us for the last year that this meeting never happened or the Russians who are the ones who were doing the information.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>There's no doubt in my mind the Russians were putting out bad stuff about Hillary Clinton because Putin had a personal beef with her that goes way back. But I'm telling you that if in a court of law this doesn't rise to anything because nothing really took place. No information was imparted. None. All right. No money was there. It was set up by a PR guy. Natalia showed up. They met for 20 minutes. Natalia talked about adoptions and and sanctions against oligarchs and they all left. There's nothing wrong with that. So you're drawing the worst possible scenario. I shouldn't say that. CNN is ten times worse than you.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>No no no. I want you.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Go ahead.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>I want to I want to tell you this Bill, I said yesterday, when the New York Times is doing this, you'll never find a smoking gun of the Trump's involved with the oligarchs. I don't believe that. I never believed that. I will tell you this, this e-mail chain absolutely blows me away. However, I'm going to give Don and Donald and the whole family the benefit of the doubt, except for this, and this is where I think the rubber meets the road, the day he's elected and everyone is saying 'hey did you ever meet'. You know he knew about this. He relied on his top.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Who are you talking about now? The president or Don Jr. Jr.?</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Don Jr. Even though in the e-mail chain you will see, by the way, I'll send this to your father through Rhoda. Whether that was sent or not I don't know. But the alluded that he was going to send it to his father. But at that time this is where it is really concerning to me. Donald Jr. knew. Now let's say he's a scared little kid and he's like I can't tell my dad that I did this or I did something wrong and I should have admitted it and I didn't. He's gone on now for a year allowing his father, who is the president of the United States, to say that Russia wasn't involved in anything. Let Dad continue to say that Russia is right and the CIA and the FBI are wrong, that we had nobody that we ever met with. I have to tell you, when I hear that you know Russia has Manafort go in and change the policy at the GOP convention that's in their favor. When I hear that Donald, that Donald Trump, the president, is saying there's not really a problem with Russia. And then this last weekend, until this story breaks, actually says we should bind ourselves together for cyber security with Russia. At some point Donald Trump Jr. needed to say to Dad, 'Dad they're really bad.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>And not only to dad but he's should've put it out there for all American people to see. That's of course he's going to have to answer. But at this point there's no crime. I believe Turley's analysis on the Hill as is correct. The hysteria ha reached a crescendo of, you know...</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Did you believe that that Bill Clinton should be impeached?</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>No. I said no at the time because it didn't reach quite the level that I thought to be removed from office.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>So we're both at least consistent. I think lying to the American people is an impeachable offense.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>It depends if it's a passive or active lie on Trump Jr's part and that's for Mueller. See I want Mueller to haul him in. I want all of this exposition. I think that the American people deserve the facts. I don't want to hear Mueller's opinion. I don't want to hear from his underlings. I want the facts and that's all.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>My first, my first reaction to this today after the e-mails came out was I'm shocked that these exist because I would have never, you could say a lot of things about Donald Trump and his family, but I would never think they would be involved like that. So that was my first response on air. And later as it all started breaking out, I wanted to make sure, you know, we, we can not be visceral about this. We have to go on the facts and use reason and not dismiss real facts and not trump up, to use the expression, trump up facts either. The country must look stable to the rest of the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>I agree. I think that at this point the media in their quest to destroy Donald Trump, you know, now has gone over into the propaganda area, that you just can't get the truth, you can't get, you know, any definition. There are few guys like Turley who are doing that. I think you do it from your point of view, I do it from my point of view, but not many. And that's not going to change. I think the media has crossed the Rubicon to use a historical expression.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>And I do too.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>And they're not coming back, you know, they're just not.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>And what happened after they crossed the Rubicon? You got a tyrant and a dictatorship. This is a very scary Rubicon to cross. You know, and Bill, I would always like to emphasize that you and I have disagreed on a lot of stuff over the years but you and I have become very good friends and I appreciate our friendship and I have real, just a ton of respect for you, even though, you know, we have really strongly disagreed on things. This is where, this is the kind of conversation that we need to start having again in America. And there are so many people that would be fans of mine or who believe what I happen to believe that, that, you know, if, you know, we've got to see what the investigation bears out here, but if this is going down this nasty road, that can't stand for the security of the nation, you're saying basically the same thing, but, you know, you're you're giving him more leeway than I would, there are going to be people who are listening to us who are either really mad at me or really mad at you. And we're not mad at each other. We have to have these discussions.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>But my analysis is always based on the most important thing in the United States criminal justice system that you are innocent until proven guilty. OK. And that's what you're not getting in the media. I mean they throw this stuff out and it makes me almost sick. All right. To hear these people rant and rave, that crimes have happened, this happened, and oh my God. And it's not true.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>I will say this. I will tell you this. I mean, you know, that you know, I've heard people run to treason and to impeachment and, you know, you can't make those decisions at this point. But I will tell you this, Fox News, last night, Fox News was saying there is no evidence of any kind of collusion. Now today there's no evidence of collusion. But if you would find out that she was sharing something it at least shows that he was willing to collude a little bit.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Well wait a minute. No, no, no, no. That's not true. He's willing to take information as anybody would be. But collude means ...</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>A you shouldn't, you shouldn't. And that's the, the standard was ...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Woah, woah, woah. Beck, Beck, Beck. No no no. If you're running against somebody and somebody comes in and gives you information that's valid you have to check it out. All right. You take it. You take it.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>So if somebody comes to you like CNN did and gives you the briefing book for the debate like CNN did to Hillary Clinton, do you take it and use it?</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>If I'm a candidate? If I'm a candidate? No I don't. But information is different, is different.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Why? That's just information.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>You check it out on your source, you find out you verify the information, and if the information is credible and true you use it. If you sneak in steal a briefing book and give it to somebody, its a whole different thing.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>No no no no no no no no no no no no. Somebody was just giving you the information and...</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Donna Brazile was giving questions. All right. And that was dishonest. And CNN to its shame, you know I don't know if they even do that Donna Brazile was doing it but she did it, I don't know if CNN knew she was doing it.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>So I thought it was wrong when Donna Brazile did it and I thought they all should have been held to a much higher penalty than what they were all held to. But the actual standard comes from Al Gore and George W. Bush in 2000, right before one of the debate, Al Gore received a a booklet, which covered everything that George W. Bush was covering, it had all of the information on what he was thinking was coming in the debate. The attorney it was given to the campaign the campaign turned it to the attorney and the attorney called the FBI and said if we hadn't have done it it would have been treasonous or borderline treasonous. I think there are lines and when you are dealing with Russia, an enemy of the United States, you don't, I mean this put, think of this, forget about it if it's in trouble or if you're going to go to jail or anything, because I don't know any of that, but I do know this, Donald Jr. put his father in a position of blackmail. Let me just play a scenario out in your head. Let's say Donald Trump knew nothing about this and everybody was asking last week how come Donald Trump's meeting was supposed to go 30 minutes, how come I went two hours? I do not believe this happened. I'm only using this as a scenario to understand. Let's say Donald, he gets in there and he says hey we have this stuff. I mean, you have a president now that could be blackmailed by this. This is bad.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Yeah. I mean but that's a good screenplay for a movie someday. But right now what you have, is you have a hysteria on the media for information that Trump Jr. wanted information, not from a, not from a Russian official, but from a lawyer, who is now openly said I had nothing to do with the Russian governmen, that's not while I was there. So it wasn't like he's meeting with, you know, Putin's right hand. It's not what happened.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>That's what... that's what a KGB agent would say. And I just want you to know, Putin is winning either way in the first place. He wins either way.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>I agree with that. He got away with messing around in our election. He got away with it. And he did it.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>That's why we eat or take information, we don't take information from a foreign government for this reason.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>All right. But it wasn't a foreign government, it was some lawyer, set up by a sleazy PR guy, a Brit, that's what it was. So let's not make it more than that. I mean we're getting into Rocky and his friends here.</p>
<p><strong>BECK: </strong>Read the email. Bill I love you I'll see you Friday.</p>
<p><strong>OREILLY: </strong>Friday on the Beck show. All right thank you. All right so we ran over a little bit. I think it was worth it though. So that was interesting.</p>
<p>We're not going to do any mail today because we have a couple of more segments for you. I just want to give you a little more information but we will do a big male segment tomorrow on the Beck O'Reilly, Donald Trump Jr. thing so put him on a message board send sent to Bill at Bill O'Reilly dotcom we'll use those letters. All right now 53 percent drop in arrests at the southwest border. A six year low. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency reports. We reported this last week, that the Trump hard line on immigration is stopping the mass flow in. And listen to this, the agency says that in the fiscal year beginning in October, arrests are down two thirds from 66,000,712, last year, alright, to twenty one thousand six fifty nine. All right. At the same period of the fiscal year. It's amazing. And that's because of Trump. So like Trump. Hate Trump. Ff you like open borders you don't like him, but that's being effective, and that's without a wall or anything else. So that's what's happening there.</p>
<p>And finally Mitch McConnell says the Senate is going to work two weeks in August, cutting into their cutting into their vacation to try to get this health care plan done. This is really do or die for the Republican Party and they better get something. They don't, folks are going to be mad and a tax cut that pushed off into the fall. You know, all this Russian garbage, and I'm not going to diminish it, it's got to be it's got to be fleshed out, it's got to be investigated, hurting the country. It really hurt the country because we need to get these things done. OK.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-11T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on NY Times' Russia Reports; Bernie Goldberg's Advice for POTUSBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-NY-Times-Russia-Reports;-Bernie-Goldbergs-Advice-for-POTUS/123239952859418127.html2017-07-11T00:56:00Z2017-07-11T00:56:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, Monday July 10th 2017. A lot to talk about today. Some of it grim and some of it funny. So we have a good cross-section.</p>
<p>Let's begin with Donald Trump Jr. Oh, so the <em>New York Times</em> holds the story back until the president comes back from the G-20 Summit in Germany. The summit by all accounts went okay. These things really don't affect our lives directly but the <em>Times</em> didn't really want to drop a story in the middle of that that distracted from possible Trump gaffes over there or something. So the story is that Donald Trump Jr. and his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort who for a short time managed the Trump campaign met with a Russian attorney who knows people in the Kremlin shortly after the Indiana primary, which pretty much sewed everything up for Trump as a Republican nominee.</p>
<p>Now the story is interesting -- it's interesting. Is it any more than that? No. Not at this point.</p>
<p>But if you look at CNN and MSNBC <em>Ah, Russian collusion!</em> All of that. Okay fine. You knew they were going to do it. You knew the reason the <em>New York Times</em> dropped it when Trump came back was to have another news cycle here. They could resume the Russian collusion narrative that's what's in play. Keep it going. Keep it a lot now. I don't know what happened. Trump Jr. says he met with the woman because she said she had some kind of dirt on Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>And so they met with her and she didn't have anything and he talked Russian adoption for 20 minutes and everybody split. Okay. Did that happen? Is that true? I have no blanket idea whether it's true. That's what Trump Jr. says. He should've said it three months ago.</p>
<p>You know, get it all out. Any Russian -- any Russian restaurant, any Russian movie, anything get it out.</p>
<p>Stop given the anti-Trump media stuff. Will ya?</p>
<p>And now I'm going to leave it to Robert Mueller to see if there were more than that there. I don't know. Manafort has a long relationship with Russian interests. But you know look, if I'm running for office and my aide comes in and says <em>Hey so and so over there from Romania says he knows you about your opponent got bad things. </em></p>
<p>We'll find out what she's got. Right. Right. Anybody does that. Now it's funny because today -- see this forces me to watch cable TV, which I don't want to do anymore. MSNBC and CNN as I said wall the wall <em>Oh! Oh! This is...</em> Fox didn&rsquo;t cover it all or even mentioned it. I watched maybe an hour. They didn&rsquo;t even mention it and then I go back to the <em>Ah! Ah! </em>Trump <em>Jr! Oh, my God!</em> It's so insane -- so crazy.</p>
<p>But for your purposes, the honest American, right now the story is that they met with this attorney nothing happened. And that was that. That's a story now. All right. But it could change. But Mueller is going to have to be the guy that defines that. Not the <em>New York Times,</em> which wants Trump on the ropes. Come on.</p>
<p>All right now. Fighting back. So far we haven't seen -- You know, we are not doing this live. It&rsquo;s a couple hours before so this might be dated, but the president really hasn&rsquo;t said anything about this.</p>
<p>There&rsquo;ve been statements released by Trump Jr. saying <em>Nothing happen and this is what it was.</em> But again he should have done that three months ago.</p>
<p>Now Bernie Goldberg has a column about his suggestion of President Trump how he should handle the hate Trump media. And let's bring him on now. He's running around in North Carolina somewhere.</p>
<p>Bill: Goldberg can you hear me?</p>
<p>Goldberg: I got you loud and clear but before I answer one of your brilliant questions, let me congratulate you. Stumbled on to two very important points. I say stumbled on because you understand how rare that is that you would get something like this right.</p>
<p>Bill: Of course.</p>
<p>Goldberg: You said they should have got it out three months ago. Absolutely right.</p>
<p>Bill: Right.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Absolutely right. If you're going to meet with the Russians it's one thing to meet with Joe Blow in Cincinnati who supposedly has opposition research on Hillary Clinton. If you're going to meet with the Russians get it out. See I'm totally with you on that. And you said something else that was really important and that is if you watch MSNBC and CNN it's the biggest story since Hiroshima Nagasaki. If you watch Fox it didn't exist. Virtually anyway. That's a problem. That's a problem because people just go to get the kind of news that they want to get. That's not good.</p>
<p>Bill: No.</p>
<p>Goldberg: That's not good.</p>
<p>Bill: And you don't know if you're getting the truth because if you go to these cable things -- what I just did in three and a half minutes, Goldberg they do in three and a half hours. See I give you all the facts.</p>
<p>Goldberg: I know.</p>
<p>Bill: Everything we know. Right. In three and a half minutes. That's all I got. I don't have any more. But if you go to the cable it&rsquo;s hours.</p>
<p>Goldberg: They don't have any more either, but it goes on and on.</p>
<p>Bill: <em>Let&rsquo;s put him in jail.</em></p>
<p>Goldberg: If you listen, you say <em>I haven't learned anything in this</em>. It's just all relentless. And if you like this guy you watch this thing. If you don't like this guy, you&rsquo;ll watch this thing. It's not good. We need in a free country -- we need a mainstream media that people can trust. Okay.</p>
<p>Bill: I don't know if it's ever going to happen.</p>
<p>Goldberg: We also need a president &ndash; we need a president that people can trust. Right now. I don&rsquo;t think we have either.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill: Well, you gave you some advice in your column on <a href="http://bernardgoldberg.com/">BenardGoldberg.com</a> just encapsulate what your message is as far as him the president confronting the press. How should he do it?</p>
<p>Goldberg: My message is that he acknowledges -- goes on national television and acknowledges that the press is not just okay, they have an obligation to hold him accountable for what he says and what he does say. He starts off with that. He says that in a free country you need a free press. We all know that, but you also need a fair press and he declares <em>I'm ending the war right now against the media. I am ending it no matter what the media does</em>. <em>I am ending it.</em> But the media has an obligation to they have an obligation to acknowledge that they have an agenda and the agenda is not simply to tell the truth. The agenda is that because they think Donald Trump is unfit to be president. They think it's okay to insert their biases into their stories and their malice into their stories. So they need to acknowledge that and they need to say <em>You know what the president is calling off this war.</em> <em>So are we.</em> Now I say if Donald Trump did something like that his poll numbers would go through the roof no matter how the mainstream media reacted.</p>
<p>Bill: Right, but they are not going to cooperate.</p>
<p>Goldberg: <em>I also acknowledge that I&rsquo;m not some Pollyanna doofus</em>. I don't understand that he's going to be capable of it and the media may not be capable.</p>
<p>Bill: I'm not sure that that would help him in the long run. So I had in a similar column to yours that I wrote before you. That it said knock off the ad hominem to the man personal attacks Mr. President and just tweet facts. That's all. Kill them with the facts. So if you don't like coverage from a newspaper say <em>Here's where the newspaper misled the American people</em> and then list it rather than going after.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Right.</p>
<p>Bill: Because I think that Trump is correct when he says he's unique in the history of the presidency whereby the media is actively trying to destroy him, not cover him, not be skeptical of him -- they're actively trying to destroy him and that's exactly what they're doing. So I need the ability to instantly fight back on Twitter, but shifted from personal attacks to facts. That's what I think would help Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Goldberg: I totally agree. I totally agree. For one thing, you don't send out a -- he is needlessly vindictive. You don't send out a tweet saying Mika Brzezinski had a bloody face after a facelift, which she says she didn't have. You don't call him psycho Joe and all that. Now I want to make clear -- I want to make very clear that they have been disrespectful of the president. Joe Scarborough said <em>My mother has dementia</em>. <em>She's had it for 10 years. Donald Trump speaks like my mother. </em>Wrong. You don't do that. And Mika Brzezinski said <em>the president doesn't love his country. </em>Wrong. You don't do that. They have an obligation. He has an obligation. What I'm saying is he should do what you suggested. Tweet the facts out. Tweet the facts out and then lay off the personal attacks and if they continue that's on them. They already have virtually nobody in this country who believes them and supports them. They will have even less if they continue this.</p>
<p>Bill: And Trump should adopt your suggestion. The president should adopt Goldberg&rsquo;s suggestion that he should say this &ndash; he should say <em>Look it's out of control the presidency versus the press. I'm not going to do personal attacks anymore but I will set the record straight by using facts.</em></p>
<p>Goldberg: Exactly. Exactly.</p>
<p>Bill: <em>And I appeal to the media to stop trying to destroy this administration by using anonymous sources, by twisting stuff around, by blowing stuff out of proportion, by misreporting things,</em> which they do all day long. But I think we've reached a point of no return on both sides. I don't think Donald Trump's going to do that because I really believe and I've said this that Trump feels in the long game and I wrote a column for <em>The Hill</em> last week about this -- he's going to win by running against the press. So next time around he's not just going to run against a Democrat. He's going to run against the press. He thinks he's going to win.</p>
<p>Goldberg: I know what he thinks. I'm not at all sure he's right.</p>
<p>Bill: Yeah, but he won the first time around. Nobody thought he would.</p>
<p>Goldberg: If I hear one more analyst on cable television telling me that this is a great strategy because he's appealing to the base, I'm going to get sick because he doesn't have to appeal to the base. I know the base very very well and so do you Bill. They are not going to abandon him no matter what. He once said presumably jokingly <em>I could shoot somebody on 5<sup>th</sup> Avenue and I wouldn't lose support.</em> I believe that literally. I believe that literally, but the base only accounts for 30 percent of the votes, but you need to remember the numbers.</p>
<p>Bill: But I'll tell you what in my daily life, I can't tell you how many people have come up to me that aren't Trump ardent supporters are right that say <em>What's the matter with the media? Why is the media doing this? Why are they so corrupt? </em>These aren't fanatical people. These are people who now have heard and seen the level -- I mean just today to have a guy like Charles Blow. Now people don't know who he is, he is <em>The New York Times</em> columnists come out and call the president the United States a pathological liar and just all of this garbage. All right. Just garbage coming from these precincts nonstop. This is disturbing. The people in the middle, the independents and the people that aren&rsquo;t that political. It's disturbing.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Let me make two points. Bill, let me make two points. Are you still with?</p>
<p>Bill: Always Goldberg. Always. You know that.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Okay. Two points. One -- the people in the middle, who say that if they're truly in the middle. Good. I don't know. They need to criticize the press where the press deserves to be criticized. What I am very troubled by, very trouble is the passionate supporters. When I write a column that's either even handed that says the press is wrong but Donald Trump has been too vindictive and too personal or when I praised Donald Trump 95 percent of my columns at <a href="http://bernardgoldberg.com/">BernardDoldberg.com</a> by the way and 5 percent or one paragraph that says, but he's been scammed and vindictive and he doesn't need to do this. The only comments I get from his supporters the true blue supporters -- a hundred percent of the comments I get are about how I'm criticizing Donald Trump and he doesn&rsquo;t deserve to be criticized.</p>
<p>Bill: It&rsquo;s an emotional response.</p>
<p>Goldberg: It's not good for anybody to have people that are that loyal to him.</p>
<p>Bill: We all need to step back and see it for really what it is. So if you haven't heard we're talking to Bernie Goldberg on <a href="http://bernardgoldberg.com/">BernardGoldberg.com</a>.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Sign up for the alerts. Sign up.</p>
<p>Bill: It&rsquo;s a good website and he's a smart guy, which is why we're very happy to have him on BillOReilly.com. We have a lot of .com stuff going on. Bernie thanks as always for talking to us. We'll check in with you again next week.</p>
<p>Goldberg: Bill, it's always my pleasure. Always my pleasure. Thank you.</p>
<p>Now, we're going to continue on with the news service. I was going to take a break this is just for my technical guy. I'm not. I'm not now. Okay.</p>
<p>So we're going to continue on because I have it all in my mind and if I take a break I may lose my sound and my ears. So I'm rolling now.</p>
<p>So let's talk about Trump/Putin meeting now.</p>
<p>When you meet with an adversary and you want to try to get anything done in your personal life so your neighbor is blaring the stereo and making your life miserable -- whatever.</p>
<p>And you want him to stop you want him to be more cooperative. The first approach is to be firm in defining the problem and then say can we work together to solve it. That's the first approach. If the guy goes like this F you then you take whatever measures you have to take. So that's what Trump is doing. Trump basically -- we know he addressed the Russian meddling in the election with Putin.</p>
<p>Don't know &ndash; we will it will leak out, but you know he brought it up. And Trump himself knows that Putin and the Russians try to create chaos.</p>
<p>He knows that. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows they did it.</p>
<p>Now Trump saying to himself <em>If I can get this guy to cooperate with me on ISIS and Syria and a few other places North Korea.</em> All right. <em>I'm going to be way ahead of the game.</em> So rather than pound him into pudding as the Democrats want and believe me if Barack Obama, who did exactly the same thing with Putin, exactly the same as Trump is doing -- try to win them over.</p>
<p>You didn&rsquo;t hear a word about Democrats there. Not a word. That's garbage. All right.</p>
<p>Now the risk that Trump runs by giving Putin respect and trying to win him over is that if Putin hose's us again which he very well might, Trump looks weak. Just like Obama looked weak.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s the risk. All right. But I understand the strategy. I got it. And Trump has given it a shot to try to persuade him not to be a heinous villain. Russian economy is bad. There's demonstrators in the streets there now.</p>
<p>But you've got to be firm. Was Trump firm enough with Putin? Probably not. Probably could have been a little more firm, but a threat at this point.</p>
<p>Don't really help us. I say that because Congress has already passed sanctions or that the Senate did 98 to 2. I think it was and the House is or is going to vote soon. There's going to be sanctions on Russia. And Trump can't do anything about it. He can veto it but it's going to be overridden and he's not going to veto it because it will look like a fool. So the sanctions against Putin are common.</p>
<p>And they're going to hurt his economy more. So that's there. The Trump can grandstand that or he can try to get Putin to be more corporate. So that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s going on there.</p>
<p>Comey. So now the Hill and I write columns for <em>The Hill.</em> It's a good organization. Reports, anonymous sources again, that Comey in his memos -- that he wrote to himself about his conversations with Donald Trump, included classified information. And this is the Hill reporting this. And then as we all know, the former FBI chief gave those memos to a friend of his a civilian who then pass it on to <em>New York Times</em> and of course Comey knew that was going to happen.</p>
<p>So now Trump is saying Comey maybe in criminal trouble. Maybe. Now I don't know.</p>
<p>But this gets to be very intriguing.</p>
<p>Very intriguing. So Mueller the special counsel has to start investigating Comey in this Russian collusion business.</p>
<p>Now that the Hills reported this. Fascinating. It really is. Is this Mueller thing. And I don't even know when it's going to come. Believe me, they'll stretch this thing out forever because it means good ratings for CNN and MSNBC.</p>
<p>All right. Finally, on CBS, I don't know what show it was I saw a clip, a woman got up there and looked like a liberal woman but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>And started ranting about people who call other people snowflakes who is the main offender? You're looking at him. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Old-School/Old-School/48426.html">Old School Life in the Same Lane</a> is snowflake blizzard. We define it. We talk about it. We say how it developed. We say how you can front it. Where it's going to lead to. It's snowflake city -- Old School Life in the Same Lane. This woman's point was no one has a right to call any other American a snowflake because we're all snowflakes. We're all spoiled. We're all people who have too much. Our lives are too soft so that we don't have the right to point to somebody and be judgmental and call them a snowflake.</p>
<p>I have one word. Bull.</p>
<p>And I had lunch with a guy today named Umberto here on Long Island. He has a series of pizza Italian restaurants. He comes over from Napoli from Naples, Italy at age 19. He started as a dishwasher. He works his way up and now he's a rich guy and puts out a great product. And is living the American dream. He's not a snowflake. All right. He's an old school guy and he knows the difference and he has a right to point at you and say you're a snowflake, if you're working in his restaurant and You <em>can&rsquo;t is too crowded. I can&rsquo;t take all the orders.</em></p>
<p>This guy did it the hard way. So it's bull. I worked my way up from nothing. Scranton, Pennsylvania. I started. I worked my way up by working hard and doing good work and I didn't whine about it. I complained, but not whining. They sent me to El Salvador. I went to El Salvador. Wherever they sent me I went and I did what I had to do.</p>
<p>So now if<em> I want to start my career as a journalist in New York.</em> You know what I&rsquo;m talking about. It's a mentality.</p>
<p>There are, and when I go to the Umberto&rsquo;s restaurant there are young kids working their buns off -- working their tails off. All right. They're old school kids. But there are others and you know <em>It's too hard. Too hard. </em></p>
<p>I'm going to tell you a quick story. I was managing a little league team a couple of years ago and it was about 100 degrees out there. It was one of the hottest days of the year and you know little league fields are dusty and they don't hose them down. It's not the big leagues. It was really really oppressive. My team in the fourth inning was down by about three or four runs. Weren't that good anyway. I almost had a mutiny on a team because they were hot.</p>
<p>They didn't want to play anymore. They were hot so all 6 foot 4 of me stood up and said <em>You guys are going to get out on the field. </em></p>
<p>I had a bat that day and <em>You're going to get out now.</em> Boom. They&rsquo;re out there. But it was like if I hadn't done that we would have forfeited the game because they were hot.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s the world we live in.</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s go to the mail.</p>
<p>Christine Stoner. Anchorage, Alaska. <em>I'm confused</em> says Christine. <em>Who are these protesters in Hamburg and what are their goals? I just don't understand violence for the sake of violence.</em></p>
<p>I don't know why you don't understand it Christine because there are anarchists and people who will destroy property and hurt other human beings just because they can.</p>
<p>I mean it doesn't take -- 20 percent of the human race is vicious with no feeling for anybody else sociopathic. And they'll do what they do. Is there a point to these demonstrations? No. No point to it. They just don't like the organized structure that we have in this world.</p>
<p>Karin Farmington from Farmington Hill, Michigan and Karen is posting on the message boards. <em>If Angela Merkel still eager to take in tens of thousands of refugees in the Middle East in North Africa, I say more power to her less coming to America for us to support. </em></p>
<p>Not really. The refugee problem in Europe can't really bleed over here because of the air travel situation and sea travel, but air travel mostly. In order to come here you have to have a visa and you get. You can't just show up at the airport waving a passport.</p>
<p>But in Europe the wave of migrants and refugees -- you don't have to have anything because the EU don't have any borders. You just get there. Now, Austria as we reported last week put their army at the Brenner Pass saying no more. But what Merkel is doing is really changing the whole fabric of Germany. It will be interesting to see if the German people re-elect her.</p>
<p>Jeff in Durant, Iowa on a message board. <em>The evil doers in Germany now protesting and destroying property. Do you think O&rsquo;Reilly they are paid anarchists with Soros and VoP?</em> <em>What is the mayor of New York City de Blasio doing over there?</em></p>
<p>Okay. Yes. The anarchist leadership is paid. George Soros I can't say directly he does it but he is involved with paying some of the most evil individuals on this planet in the United States mostly. This is it. Awful awful person. And the money that he donates to these evil people not only goes to demonstrations -- paid demonstrations, demonstrators are paid but they go to destroy people in the media to foster lies about people. It's the lowest. Now there is a book called The Smear by Sharyl Attkisson. We're going to have Sharyl on soon that documents all of this. The book is The Smear.</p>
<p>You should read it is frightening. Okay.</p>
<p>Lisa Burlington, New Jersey. <em>Bill, I don't understand why Kate&rsquo;s law would not go through the Senate. Don't Republicans have the majority?</em></p>
<p>They do but you need 60 votes on a boat like this. Now the rules in the Senate are arcane and some bills you don't need 60 you just need a majority. Some bills you need 60.</p>
<p>I'm going to try to get an explanation for that soon. I don't have it now, but they need 60 votes to pass Kate&rsquo;s law.</p>
<p>Elmer, Elmwood Park, Illinois. <em>You're absolutely correct O&rsquo;Reilly. The future of entertainment for television and internet is streaming Netflix, Amazon and it's going to be go to for entertainment. It will be the norm.</em></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s coming. Some people say 10 years I think about five. On-Demand, everything on demand and you'll be able as you are now to watch podcasts and things like that at will. You can watch us anytime you want. And that will destroy the traditional way of watching television. It's coming.</p>
<p>Deborah Queensbury, New York. <em>Exactly why do all the airports have CNN on?</em></p>
<p>They buy their way on. CNN buys the space in the airports. Spend a lot of money doing it.</p>
<p>Now here's another one. This is bill@BillOReilly.com.</p>
<p>Gene Stricklin, Barstow California. <em>Just want to say it's great to hear you and Glenn Beck together. I think highly of you both.</em></p>
<p>Okay. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/blog?categoryID=24#month=6&amp;year=2017">Beck and I are on Friday</a>. We may expand out on a radio -- on his radio program. We have a great time. It's posted on <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/blog?categoryID=24#month=6&amp;year=2017">BillOReilly.com</a>. You can hear it. Posted on the Blaze and on Beck's website. So I am good rapport I have known him for many years. I like him he's a good guy. We're going to continue to do that.</p>
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<p>Yes. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Killing-England/Killing-England/48866.html">Killing England</a> out in September, focuses on Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin through their eyes how America achieved freedom and it was brutal. than<a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Patriots/47266.html?dispid=168">Legends &amp; Lies: The Patriots</a>more of a factual primmer. All right. But you're going to learn about who George Washington really was, who Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson really were. They weren't saints. Fascinating book to write. You're going to like it.</p>
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<p>Thanks for being premium members. Tomorrow Glenn Beck right here. See you then.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-11T00:56:00ZO'Reilly on the Media Landscape & Interview with Glenn BeckBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Media-Landscape--Interview-with-Glenn-Beck/-864532042272613257.html2017-07-07T07:00:00Z2017-07-07T07:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, a special No Spin News on Friday, July 7th 2017.</p>
<p>We usually don't do Fridays but because of a short week we figured we'd give this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, what this is going to consist of is I'm going to do a little commentary here and then we're going to give you the Rush.... I'm sorry, the Glenn Beck interview... I said Rush Limbaugh because my commentary is on him.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But we have an interview that Beck did with me this morning, Friday morning, and we're going to put that on. So you get some insight into that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, so earlier this week, Rush Limbaugh is the number one radio commentator in the country. And I used to compete against him when I had the Radio Factor, you might remember that. And it was funny because we did ok on the radio, a very profitable program, but he had all the number one stations sewed up because he had been so successful so many years. I was on the competing stations that were not struggling but they weren't at the level of... for example, in L.A. we were on KBC, great station, but he's on KFI, mammoth stage.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it was not an even playing field, but we did alright in our competition, and that's what America is based on. I give Rush Limbaugh a lot of credit building up to number one and maintaining that. We did it on TV for 20 years and he's done it even longer on radio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, so earlier this week, Mr. Limbaugh says CNN is over, that the network has destroyed itself with its anti-Trump posture.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm not so sure about that. So let me explain what the cable world is. You've got Fox News, which speaks to traditional conservative Americans. So they have that audience all to themselves at this point in history. And Fox has done very well with that audience. Then you have a division between MSNBC, far-left, about as far left as I've ever seen any operation, and CNN, which is hardcore left but not as nearly as progressive as MSNBC. So they divide the audience. MSNBC wins that war.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So CNN is third. CNN though has the distribution. They're in the airports, they have a low dial position on your cable band, so they're making money, and their ratings have come up with the anti-Trump stuff. So has MSNBC's.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are enough Trump haters in the country that want to hear this every day. They want to hear, <em>we hate Trump</em> every day. And so they watch that. And you can see it. The more you hate Trump, the higher the ratings go. That's not going to last, particularly if Trump starts to pass legislation like health care and tax cuts. But it's there now. So MSNBC is the one that's benefited the most. CNN, they're number three, they don't really have a chance at this point to be anything other than number three. So I guess you could say that they don't have a lot of potential for growth. But the operation is solid enough.</p>
<p>They have CNN International. Wherever you go in the world, there it is. So they make money. They're making money, and in TV that's what it's all about, how much money you make. So I don't see it as well, CNN's going to fold or it's not going to be there. It's going to be there in our lifetime. It'll be there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, what's happening though to all cable stations, not just news, and ESPN is a good example of this, is that the audience is coming down, and it's because they don't want to pay 150/180 dollars, 200 dollars, a month for a bunch of stations they don't watch.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So on cable, maybe I watch five stations and I have 100. I maybe watch five. I watch sports. I watch some news, not as much as I used to. And I watch maybe a special presentation of something that I'm interested in. But I don't watch any of their shows, like a weekly show or something like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't watch the zombies. A lot of people watch the zombie shows on AMC. I don't watch the zombies. I don't watch the Alaska... I love Alaska, but you know driving a truck around, chasing a bear, I just don't watch it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All of that is going to come down because people don't want to pay the cable rate and they want television on demand. So I want to watch The O'Reilly Factor, now. You're going to have that technology very soon, the ability to do that. In fact, you're looking at it right now on the internet. OK, this is what's going to happen on television as well. It's going to be a hook and the cable networks are all going to be hurting. ESPN is hurting bad and that was the most successful sports network in history. They're hurting.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I think the news networks, depending on the rise of this kind of programming, which we're investing in, are not going to collapse, they'll still be there, but not to the extent that it was in the golden era.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Could be wrong, but I don't think I am. You're going to see more and more of the entertainment dollars go to Amazon, Netflix, the streaming stuff, where you can get what you want on an individually price basis whenever you want it. And the technology... you're going to have voice technology in a couple of years. You're going to walk into a room and you're going to be able to speak to your television set and you're going to go, <em>turn on, I want to watch Hawaii Five-O.</em></p>
<p>Bang. That's what's going to happen.</p>
<p>That technology is going to... and when it does, you have to pay for it. You're going to pay for it. So you're not going to want to pay for the obsolete technology. So that's what's all in play here.</p>
<p>So CNN is taking a hit. They've had to apologize for a number of stories. They fired some people for not reporting accurately. But it's not going to wipe them out.</p>
<p>What will ultimately wipe all of the cable stations out is the new technology, where it's going to be more efficient to buy this package than the whole cable package. And that is coming down the pike.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So my pal Glenn Beck is a good guy and he's been kind enough to put me on his radio program, syndicated show, every Friday. We may expand that because it's going very well. Might do two times a week. And today, I was on with Beck. We do it in the morning, but I want to put it now on the No Spin News so you can get a sample. It's all audio. OK, you only hear audio now. I'm going to disappear. But before I do, I want you to have a nice weekend.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I hope you're having a good summer. I'm having a pretty good summer. You know, I don't have to put on a tie every day. There's a lot of good things for what I'm doing here. I hope you're having a good summer, that's important to me, and I hope you're checking in with us on a regular basis. OK. So have a good weekend. Here's Beck and O'Reilly.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-07T07:00:00ZO'Reilly on Anarchy in Europe & Rising Tensions with North KoreaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Anarchy-in-Europe--Rising-Tensions-with-North-Korea/438467648614254673.html2017-07-06T23:00:00Z2017-07-06T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Thursday, July 6th 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I had an interesting day. I met with a former CIA director, I'm not going to tell you which one, because it was a private meeting, lunch, but I picked his brain about North Korea, which I'll get to in a moment. He told me some very interesting things there, things you're not going to hear anywhere else.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But let's start with President Trump in Poland. You know, big speech this morning there basically urging Europe to do more to protect itself against the jihadists and others, Russia. You know, beef up NATO, that kind of thing. It was a standard stump speech...Trump stump...standard speech.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nothing out of the ordinary. If you missed it, you didn't miss much. It's the same theme. President Trump believes that the United States should not carry the full load in world defense. I agree. I think you agree. And the Germans could lead the way but they don't.</p>
<p>So then after Poland he flies to Hamburg on the northern part of Germany on the Baltic Sea. And the protesters are there. Now in Poland you didn't see the protesters because the government there is a little harsher than in Germany, the government wasn't going to let any protesters in there. But in Germany they have a long history of anarchists disrupting stuff. So they ran out and no big deal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This happens in the United States, Seattle, which is probably the biggest anarchist city in the United States. And people say, <em>oh look at these... it's not anti-Trump, it's anti-Western world.</em> They don't believe in capitalism. They don't believe in borders. Don't believe in countries. It's, you know, a movement of people who are what they called "disaffected." Most of them don't have any roots in the community. They kind of just bob around, heavy drug component in that crew.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, I've seen them, talked to them myself. They can't really articulate what they want, what they don't want. They just don't like the establishment and so they show up in places where they have the big economic summits.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So that's that. Now tomorrow is the big meeting between Putin and Trump. I'll get to that in a moment. But that's not really the most important meeting because Putin, he's a liar.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I expect that meeting... you know, Trump's going to come out <em>oh, the Russians are going to help us with North Korea...</em> I'll get to that in a minute. But whether Putin does anything or not, I'm not banking on it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, is a much more different subject. Angela Merkel is a liberal woman. That's number one, you've got to understand that. And her mindset is that traditional progressive causes are worthy. It's interesting to note, she did not get along with President Obama, who was uber progressive.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That relationship was damaged because the CIA was spying on Merkel and Merkel found out about it and all of that. But they never really got along. Merkel, her view is non-confrontational, as was Barack Obama's. In fact, today in my lunch, I talked to the former CIA chief in detail about Barack Obama and why he just allowed things to go to hell overseas in almost every quarter. And there's no doubt about that. It's not like Barrack Obama can say I didn't. He did. Non-confrontational, withdrawing on every front, allowing terrible people like Iran to get involved with Iraq, Syria to get out of control, migrants and all that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Merkel could help a lot more than she helps worldwide. Germany is a big country, big economy. But Merkel is primarily interested in things like global warming, and that's going to be the big thing. See, Merkel's mad that Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord. Did Trump have to pull out? No he didn't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It didn't matter really one way or the other, it was some money we were spending there but it was not much. But Trump wanted to send a signal that look, I'm not going to get involved with these things because they don't help the USA.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Remember, Trump is America first, America first, America First. The Paris Accord doesn't really help the USA. Trump's assertion, and it's mostly true, is that the EPA standards in the United States are bringing down our pollution levels here. And they are coming down. And alternate technologies are rising, it's ascendant.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But in China and India, they're not going to obey any Paris Accords, so what's the point? Why are we spending money, why are we... you know, there's no point. That's essentially what Trump...but Merkel, it's a symbolic thing, global warming, climate can change... it's so big, so big for her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again, it's a progressive symbolic thing for Merkel. I don't believe that Trump and Merkel are ever going to get along. Way, way too confrontational Trump is for her. I don't think they're ever going to get along. I don't think Merkel is going to help out much in NATO. I don't think she's going to do much. Looks like she's going to be reelected but maybe not because of the refugee problem. That brings me to the next story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The refugee problem is a pretty intense situation still. I did not know this. And this is based on reporting today from a number of sources, but there are 20 percent more refugees or migrants, whatever you want to call them, have arrived in Europe this year at this time than last year. I didn't know that. I thought that they were cutting back, but no. 20 percent more have arrived. 85000 migrants have landed in Italy after leaving North Africa so far this year, just in Italy. And that includes 12000 that were rescued by the Italian coast guard, because they're coming over in the rafts and the boats are sinking. More than 2000 people have been killed trying to get there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, most migrants go through Italy and they go to northern Europe. Migrants and refugees go where they know people, same thing in the USA. They go where they know people. So most of these 85000 are traveling through Italy up to other countries. Same thing in Greece. Greece, another big, particularly for Syria, another big entry point.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Austrian defense minister Hans Peter Doskozil... I don't know who he is. Let's just call him Hans-Peter. He sent 750 troops, Austrian troops, with armor to the Brenner Pass. If you've been to Austria, that's where Italy leads into Northern Europe, through the Brenner Pass. Because the Alps, you can't cross the Alps, so there's a bunch of passes, and the one, the big one in Austria is the Brenner Pass. That's where Hitler and Mussolini met. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the defense minister of Austria says <em>look, we're not going to allow them, them being the migrants, to come through because enough of them are staying here, they're causing our country</em> -- and Austria is a small population based country, not a lot of the people live there. And the only big city, well there's two big cities, Salzburg and Vienna, and they have a lot of foreigners there already. And Austria not a rich nation. So they're going to stop them at the Italian border.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Merkel... Germany and Austria, they are very close. German is spoken in Austria. Totally different as far as... you know, because Merkel is still saying <em>look, we'll take you no matter how our crime rate has exploded, no matter what our welfare system is</em>, come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, some people say, <em>oh it's because the Germans don't have enough workers</em>. That's true. They don't. Population growth in Germany as far as the people who live there is very small. You know, the original Germans, the birth rate is very low. So they need people to come in and work, but we all know that they're having a lot of trouble absorbing these refugees and migrants from foreign nations.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, there's a division in Europe. And Trump, obviously, is the big <em>protect the borders, we don't want people zooming around everywhere</em>. Obviously, he's the big guy that does this. So that's another reason that Merkel and Trump are never going to get along, no matter what you do, not going to happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I see tomorrow Putin and Trump as an interesting study. I'm going to make a prediction but I know I could be wrong on this. I'm going to say that after the Trump/Putin meeting, Trump's going to come out and Putin will back him, and say Russia is going to help us with North Korea.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, again, this is a big leap for me to make this prediction. This is a gut thing not based on anything I know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But Putin has got to give Trump something in that meeting, because Trump has been pretty soft on Putin, but Trump's getting a little teed off. Putin's got to give him something, I think he's going to give him that. Not sure. But don't be surprised.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And of course, if he does, then I'll say I'm a genius and all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Putin's a liar. So even if he says <em>look, I'm going to back the USA in taking tough measures against North Korea</em>, he won't. It's like the Chinese, the Chinese go <em>oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to help you with North Korea,</em> and they never do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In my conversation with the CIA guy today, I said <em>am I wrong or could China seal that border and then North Korea would starve in a month?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>He goes, <em>no. If China sealed the border, the North Koreans would have to stop all the nonsense because they wouldn't have any food. They&rsquo;d run out of food in about a month and then the whole people would...they wouldn't have anything to eat and they'd rebel against the government and that's what would happen.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And in our conversation I said to him, <em>what are the options about stopping North Korea from their nuclear program, now with intercontinental missiles that could reach Alaska?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>There really aren't any good options</em>, the man told me, <em>other than showing Un, the dictator, that you're going to pay a price.</em> Because, and I did not know this, listen to this. North Korea has at least four satellites operating right now, four in space, about 100 miles up. North Korea has these satellites, and they can use the satellites if they wanted to, to disrupt this, here in the USA, to disrupt our power grid. Those satellites can do that. They have the technology in North Korea to disrupt our grid.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I didn't know that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they have, in addition to plenty of missiles that they could drop on South Korea and that war could then start again. You remember, the Korean War in the 50s. They could start a war there. They'd lose that war, North Korea, so I don't think they're going to do that, but they could they could fire over. But they could do a lot of mischief. And we're real vulnerable to that here in the United States.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All our internet goes down and that just reverberates throughout everything in the economy and everything else. So, you've got to be really careful. It's not like Syria where you can go in and drop some bombs on an airfield. I guess you could do that in North Korea, but you've got to anticipate that they're going to, unlike Syria, fight back and pretty quick. Because that dictator, he's basing his power base on I'm going to humiliate the United States and all our enemies. If he backs down, his own position weakens.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the North Korean situation obviously is ramping up. That will be a big bone of contention in the G20 summit in Hamburg. Nobody's going to do anything about it but us, the USA. You know, Japan will help. Japan's a target. But we'll have to take the lead. So that's a story that you can keep your eye on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's see, did I want to tell you anything else?&nbsp;</p>
<p>One thing about these protests. I respect honest protest. I think that if you as an American, free American citizen, think something's terrible you should protest it publicly, privately, or whatever, you should try to right the wrong. But just tearing things down without any kind of plan to build them up, I'm not... that offends me. That's bad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's why I never respected the Black Lives Matter movement. All they wanted to do is demonize the police and go in and say <em>America's bad, black people to this day are suffering, and we need reparations for slavery</em>, and on and on. It was never anything to bring anybody together or to solve any problem. Black Lives Matter didn't have any solutions to anything. It was just like, whip people up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's what these people in Europe are doing, they just whip people up. <em>Oh, you don't have as much as the rich guys have, so let's burn things down, let's attack the police,</em> that kind of thing.</p>
<p>No respect. No respect for them at all.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. We got a good mail deal today, so let's get right to the mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>First letter is from Greg in Cape Coral, Florida. Greg is on the message board. So you guys are Premium Members, and you have to be if you're listening to this. When you post, we read.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Greg said: <em>I read Congressman Amash's statement about why he voted against Kate's Law. He says it violates the Constitution. I don't get it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is the only Republican Congressman, Justin Amash, Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted against Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kate's Law does not violate the Constitution in any way, shape, or form, and Congress, as this man should know, their constitutional authority is to make laws and that's what they're doing with Kate's Law. They're making a new law that if you defy deportation and you have a felony or three misdemeanors and you're a foreign national and you've been deported, you get up to 10 years in federal prison.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Justin Amash, I'm going to follow him. I'm going to see when he's up for re-election. He's not telling the truth. I mean, it violates the Constitution? Come on. This is a guy who doesn't know anything. He shouldn't be there.</p>
<p>I'm sorry I just dropped the paper and there were three more questions on it. Let me reach down and get it. You see, if I did that on television... but now if I drop it I can pick it up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ken in Los Altos, California says: <em>Bill, Lou Dobbs recently said Kate's Law has a zero chance of passing in the Senate because it needs 60 votes. What say you?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's going to be hard but it will destroy the Democratic Party. Because the Republicans can use that all day long. So right now I figure that there's 56/57 votes for Kate's Law in the Senate. They need three more. Can they get it? I don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if Democrats vote down Kate's Law, that's going to hurt the party big time. If I'm Trump, I run with that all day long.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ernie, Brighton, Michigan: <em>the problem with the Democratic Party, not wanting to lower taxes is that much of their base is on welfare, government assistance, so they live off the taxpayers. The top 20 percent of earners pay 84 percent of income tax in the USA.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ernie, you're right. But there's more to it than just mobilizing the base of people who don't pay a lot of income tax.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which now has taken that party over, believes that affluent Americans shouldn't have what they have. They're socialists.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it's not just, <em>well we want to get more money and more money for entitlements</em>, which they do. But there's a more compelling belief system, which is that wealthy people shouldn't be wealthy. That shouldn't exist.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's why tax, tax, tax, tax, tax.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, did I get everything here? Then I can throw this away and go to Phil in Chattanooga, Tennessee.</p>
<p>Phil says: <em>Please explain so even I can understand bullet points as to why we would not want a health care system like they have in Canada or UK.</em></p>
<p>I can only go on personal experience, because I lived in England for a year. The problem with socialized medicine, where the government handles all medical transactions, not all because in England you can have private medical insurance but it costs an enormous amount of money, and there are doctors that just treat private people because they don't want to be caught up in the bureaucracy that the government poses. The medical bureaucracy is so intense in England and Canada -- in Canada there's not that many people, I think there's 20 million -- that you've got to wait. And you're assigned a doctor.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And you're put in a hospital that's not really first class many times. So it's the government has all the power, you the citizen who's ill have none.</p>
<p>Is that what you want? Is that what you really want?&nbsp;</p>
<p>When many Canadians get severely ill or need to have an operation that requires sophistication, they come here to the USA. Everybody knows that, because they don't &nbsp;want to wait for the hip replacement for two years. Same thing in England. If you are getting your medical care from the government, you're at their mercy. And Americans, there are 325 million Americans; they're not going to like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now we're on to Bill@BillOReilly.com, these are the e-mails that come in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Brian Williams, Burtonsville, Maryland: <em>thank you for keeping up the good fight, Bill, and I look forward to new content on your website daily</em>, and you'll have it. <em>I'm looking for a good book to teach my 10 year old son about the Civil War, would Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War be appropriate?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Of course. That's perfect for the urchin at 10. And he would learn an enormous amount about the Civil War, which then would extend into high school and he'd be way ahead. Also, The Day the World Went Nuclear ties right into the North Korean situation right now. That's the kids book off Killing the Rising Sun, doing very well. And so those are the two books that the urchins can really grab this summer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Brenda McAllister<em>: Bill, just finished Killing the Rising Sun. It was great timing for me to read it during the Independence Day break. I have a much deeper appreciation and understanding of the price that was paid to preserve this great nation as we celebrate its founding.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, I'm glad you read it over the 4th of July. A lot of people looking for vacation reads and Killing the Rising Sun is one of the best, so is Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. That's funny. So read the heavy duty Killing the Rising Sun, but it's exciting, but it's heavy. And then for a little lighter, you go to Old School.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Steven, Dwight, Illinois: <em>the Illinois governor is too busy fighting the Democratic Party in Springfield</em>, capital of the state, <em>to focus on Chicago. It really isn't the state's business to intercede in the city's activity.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Come on, Steve. The governor of Illinois... Chicago is the largest city and over the Fourth of July weekend, one hundred Chicagoans were shot, 15 dead. 100 shot and you tell me the governor shouldn't be involved in that? Come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All of them, the politicians in Illinois, all of them, out of their league, should be voted out of office. Both parties.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bobby, Beverly Hills, California: <em>after reading Hitler's Last Days and Killing Patton, I still am somewhat confused as to which General helped win the battle of the Bulge.</em></p>
<p>That was Patton. So Patton got the order to get his troops to reinforce McAuliffe in Bastogne, who was surrounded by the Germans. Three days, Patton got up there, nobody thought he could ever do it, thought it was impossible. Patton was the hero.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lawrence Monroe, Port Charlotte, Florida: <em>how much danger is the country in from North Korea on a scale of 1 to 10?</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>6 at this point. I'd say six. I don't see North Korea now attacking anybody, as it stands now. They have the potential. They can hand things off to other people.</p>
<p>They're developing intercons to bring the warheads to Alaska. But right now, 6. But there is a body of thought in the Pentagon that says you know what, we've got to get them now, undermine them now, because if it escalates further, it's going to be more difficult. Very, very intense problem. And obviously it's been going on now for what, 30 years, and no president has been able to solve it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>John Hamilton, Maryville, Tennessee: <em>Bill, could you please explain the investigation of James Sanders, wife of Bernie Sanders, what are the feds looking at? Not a lot of coverage in the media on it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>No surprise. Jane Sanders was the president of Burlington College in Vermont, small school. She wanted to expand the school's property. In order to do that she had to borrow money from a bank. In order to get the loan approved she had to submit paperwork that says, we Burlington college have enough money coming in from alumni to pay any kind of debt off. In the long run we're going to have this much money to pay this debt. She did. Got the money, bought the land. A couple of years later, the school goes bankrupt. Burlington College down the drain. So now the Feds are looking at whether there was fraud involved in securing the loan and whether Senator Sanders used his office to grease that deal. Everybody got it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thomas Murphy, Montgomery, Texas: <em>Bill, great analysis of Chicago. The Democratic Machine has certainly alienated the folks.</em></p>
<p>Have they alienated the folks, Thomas? I would submit to you that black people in Chicago would vote the Democratic machine today if the election went down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, they... it's really hard to explain it, but it doesn't seem like the people in Chicago... where are the marches? Why aren't they marching to have the National Guard in place in their neighborhood? Why aren't the folks out on the streets demonstrating with Black Lives Matter, Sharpton, where are they? I'm not seeing it.</p>
<p>William Borgias, El Segundo, California: <em>Bill, your support and advocacy for Kate's Law is admirable. I agree 100 percent with the proposed law, but there's no chance our California senators will ever vote for it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You're right. They will pander to the immigrant lobby and they won't vote for it no matter what it is, no matter how many lives it saves. Isn't that depressing? It is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Jim Foran, Salem, Massachusetts, where the witches held court: <em>can you offer a mea culpa, Bill, on Loretta Lynch. You endorsed her. Just say, I blew it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When Loretta Lynch was nominated to be attorney general by President Obama I said accurately she had been a good U.S. attorney in New York. And the reason that I said that was because she went after pedophiles very, very hard, where they were getting light sentences by the local judges in New York City. She found federal ways to prosecute them and I admired Loretta Lynch. Once she got into Washington, as happens with many, many people, she became a political creature.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now maybe she always was, I just didn't see it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then she did the Democratic Party and President Obama's bidding and she met with Bill Clinton during the Hillary Clinton investigation. And she told Comey to call it an "issue" not an investigation, "a matter." "A matter." You want me to apologize for telling you the truth about Loretta Lynch when she was first nominated? Nah. I reported accurately. Did she not do a good job as attorney general? Yeah, she didn't do a good job, not in my opinion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I'm glad you're holding me accountable. I'm glad you remembered. I want you guys to do that. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's our No Spin News today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tomorrow, what I'm going to do, because we've had a short week here, is I'm going to do a short commentary and then let you listen to the O'Reilly/Beck interview. I'm going to put that on the No Spin News, which takes place tomorrow morning. Ok, so we'll have that up a little earlier for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm going to do a little commentary on... I'm not quite sure yet what I'm going to say, and then we'll lead into the Beck/O'Reilly interview, which you can hear... probably not going to...I go on Beck's radio show on Fridays, and it goes about 40 minutes. I'll probably cut it down a little bit, but we'll give you most of it on the No Spin News on Friday. OK.</p>
<p>And then we'll be... I didn't tweet today because I had this lunch with the CIA guy and I was getting a lot of information for you. That kind of thing. But we'll resume those and the message of the day and thanks for being Premium Members, talk to you again tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-06T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on North Korea, Media Distrust, & Chicago ViolenceBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-North-Korea-Media-Distrust--Chicago-Violence/-296647379691000141.html2017-07-05T23:00:00Z2017-07-05T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, July 5th 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I hope you had a nice July 4th weekend. I was out on the east end of Long Island. Very pretty place in the summer. Ocean wasn't bad. Usually pretty cool around early July but it wasn't bad. We dunked in there and we had spaghetti on the 4th of July instead of hamburgers and hot dogs because we were eating those during the day. We had spaghetti and clam sauce and we had two big bowls. One is spaghetti and clams sauce, one meat balls, and sausage, and spaghetti. Homemade, everything homemade, so good.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So let's get to the news. Couple of big stories going on. North Korea launches an intercontinental missile.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And look, the bottom line on this story, which has been going on for decades, is that this regime in that country simply wants to cause trouble. That's what they want to do. They are in this life to cause trouble. Their only lifeline to the rest of the world is China and China could crush North Korea in five hours. The North Koreans have nothing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Obama, President Trump, President Bush, President Clinton, all tried to have China clamp down on North Korea, reason with them. Doesn't work. In fact, it was interesting because Donald Trump today said the first quarter China upped its trade with Korea -- remember, they're the only ones that directly trade with them -- by 40 percent.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So obviously the Chinese are not worried about North Korea launching an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead at them. But the rest of the world is pretty worried about that because if it ever happened the worldwide economy would crash and all of that. Also, North Korea can hand their technology off to anybody. I mean that's on an intercon deal, but you know this stuff about Alaska and they could reach Alaska, yeah... would the missile get there? Probably not. The warning systems are in place. Probably could destroy it. But it doesn't matter. What matters is you've got this guy, Un, 29 years old, who's just going to cause trouble. What are you going to do?&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what do we do? Well I think we have to be methodical in the sense that we don't launch at them. We don't attack them. We can't bomb them like we did Syria because they would absolutely retaliate in a way that would be bad for the world. Now, that's not saying we have no moral right to do it. We really do. But you've got to do a damage control assessment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'd put a carrier off the coast of North Korea. I would put a carrier there. If China doesn't like it, too bad. President Trump was pretty blunt with the Chinese, he'll be talking to them in Hamburg this week, that you're not really helping out. Because all China has to do is say <em>look, we're not going to trade with you until you give up your nuclear ambitions and let inspectors in there... nothing's getting through. </em>That's the end of North Korea, they're done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Why? Why does China want them there? For what? They're bad for business. I mean this communist expansion dream that was alive in the 60s, that's not going to come to fruition. There are very few communist countries anymore. China, yeah they're communist but they're really not. They're in the business to make money.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'd put a carrier off the coast of North Korea and then the Americans and South Koreans are doing joint military exercises. All right. But the carrier would send a message. You know, if they do anything, if they launch, if they attack, then we have to smash them and smash them for good. All right. But they'll play the game like Iran plays the game.</p>
<p>There's three really, really troublesome nuclear powers: there's Iran, Pakistan, which again, Pakistan can hand that off to anybody, it's not a really controlled place, and North Korea. All right. So we'll be watching that.</p>
<p>Now, Donald Trump with Poland... big American ally, interesting aside on Poland: don't allow any refugees in from the Middle East. You can't get into Poland. And therefore they don't have a lot of upheaval there. Interesting, right?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anyway, we have a big missile defense system in Poland. President Trump is sending Putin a message. Putin hates Poland. Send him a message by going there. And then he'll double back to Hamburg and they'll have their G-20 summit. And he's going to meet with Putin. Trump is going to meet with Putin. But I hope it goes better than the Megyn Kelly chat.</p>
<p>You know... I would really like to do an interview with Vladimir Putin. That would be an event. You know how I feel about him. OK.</p>
<p>There's a poll, interesting poll out of the NPR/Marist college, my alma mater. And it's a good poll. It asked: Who do you trust more, the media or the Trump administration? They love this. All right. So this is, you know, a pretty big poll.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A lot of people sampled, and not one of these internet polls where people call in and only the activists really participate. This is a regular poll, a scientific poll. OK. So 30 percent of the American public have a great deal or a good amount of trust in the media.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thirty percent. That's it. All right. Sixty-eight percent don't trust the media and most categories don't trust the media at all. I think that's 37/38 percent. OK. So it's 68 to 30 "<em>We hate the media</em>.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's why I say the American people, really when it comes down to it, understand. Because the media is corrupt. The national media is corrupt. OK.</p>
<p>Do you trust the Trump administration? Thirty-seven percent do. 37 percent of Americans trust the Trump administration. 61 percent do not.</p>
<p>If I were President Trump, I'd be a little worried on that number. Because trust means that people, number one, believe when they say something and number two, respect what they are doing. It's a twofer on trust. So you want to get the number up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Job approval number...eh. It's a very political, loaded question. But trust, that's a different thing. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Civility. Twenty-six percent of Americans say <em>we don't really have a civility problem in this country</em>. I guess those are the same people who trust the media. Seventy percent say civility has gotten worse over the past year or so.</p>
<p>Now <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-How-Trump-will-win-his-war-against-the-media/-866165554005967620.html" target="_blank">I wrote a column in The Hill</a>, which is an internet newspaper and they do print a newspaper. It's very political. It's geared at elected officials. And I'm doing an occasional column for them on how Trump can win his war against the press. We have posted that column on BillOReilly.com, where you are right now. You can read it. I think it's pretty well thought out and it's absolutely 100 percent honest.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there's a war between the president and the national media. It's a war. So how can Donald Trump win the war? I tell you and him. And he'll see it. He'll see the column.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The coverage over the Fourth of July about Donald Trump and the press, you may have noticed it kind of died after Friday. And the morning show on MSNBC had its highest ratings ever in the history of that show. And I predicted that would happen on Thursday because when you attack, A President of the United States, attacks people by name, those people are going to get attention. That's not going to last, in my opinion. That show is not that that good. Nobody who supports the Trump administration is going to watch it. No Republican is going to watch it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a show that has an agenda now. And that's the real problem with these newspapers, and CNN, and MSNBC. They're in business now to promote an agenda, and that's what I say in <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-How-Trump-will-win-his-war-against-the-media/-866165554005967620.html" target="_blank">The Hill column</a>. This is what they're being ordered to do. They being the reporters and analysts. They want an agenda, and the agenda is Trump is incompetent, you've got to get him out, and he shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the agenda. You know, it's boring.</p>
<p>So let's take a look at how Fox News covered President Obama, because I was deeply involved with that. I interviewed him three times.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There wasn't really an agenda at Fox News, I never saw it anywhere, that said President Obama shouldn't be in office or got there in a nefarious way. That wasn't ever in play. I mean, maybe you had a commentator from time to time say something, but it wasn't in the halls of Fox News. There were problems with the president's policies, particularly abroad, no doubt about that. And some of us, including me, said you know what, we're getting our butt kicked overseas. And it not working. And then at home with the economy, I mean, it was how long can you blame the Bush recession? How many years you're going to have.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And he never, president Obama never turn that economy around, did he? Never. And it is interesting because today in The Wall Street Journal, there's an article on how car sales in the USA are going down. This is a danger sign to Donald Trump. Mr. President, you better get that tax cut passed and fast, because the auto industry is a harbinger and people aren't buying as many cars as they were a year ago. You've got to get that tax cut passed because a lot of this is corporate automobile buying, vehicle buying, fleets, and they're not.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you've got to get corporate taxes cut and income taxes cut for working Americans. That'll stimulate car buying and everything else. That's a danger sign. You don't want to see, in an expanding economy, a bellwether industry like the auto industry stagnating. You don't want to see that, you don't see home stagnating, you don't want a spike, but you know, growth, like this.</p>
<p>So when I saw that I went <em>hmmmm, better get that tax cut done</em>. You know, half the year is over. We're in July now. And you know, these pinheads in Congress... I mean, they don't really work in the summer. It's like France now. They're off, they're here, they're there, they're all over the place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's why health care... I don't know what's going to happen with that. I mean, I got a massive headache following it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I hope they repeal Obamacare. If they have to just do that, just do that. If you have to put Humpty Dumpty back together again in October, then do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you know, even if they repeal it, it's not like it advantages immediately. The stuff will be in place to a certain time. But right now this is chaos. But the tax cut it pretty straightforward. You've got to get that done. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's go to Chicago. The nation is celebrating Independence Day and what are the thugs doing in Chicago? They're killing each other. More than 100 people shot over the four days. A hundred people shot, 15 dead. Last Fourth of July in Chicago, four dead. Fifteen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I'm going to tell you why this is happening, and you may remember I did this on television extensively.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump has smartly sent in federal help, mostly through the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms, federal agents. And they're going to Task Force with the local Chicago police, I guess there's Illinois State Police too, but I don't know much about that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The governor of Illinois, name escapes me at the moment, has really does a terrible job on this front, awful job. Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, he has no clue. None. You'd be better with a sixth grader in there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what you have is Chicago is a segregated city in housing. So whites live in certain neighborhoods and the blacks live in certain neighborhoods and the whites are segregated too. There's Polish neighborhoods. There's Irish neighborhoods, Italian neighborhoods. And unlike New York, where a lot of that's broken down, if you go to Little Italy in New York it's one block. The Chinese have taken it all over. Chicago is not that way. Chicago has got very, very regimented neighborhoods.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then you have public housing. And wherever you have public housing you have a violence problem. It just follows. And I'll get into that some other time on why that is. But they plunked down the public housing in certain areas and then violence rises. Drug sales rise. Gangs control drug sales, whatever.</p>
<p>In Chicago, what you have, unlike a lot of major cities, is anarchy among the criminals. This is a very fascinating criminology situation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Most big cities like New York and Los Angeles, the crime, the drug dealing is controlled by certain groups and those groups have territories and they police their territories, pardon the pun, ruthlessly. So you can't go in and start selling heroin if the Bloods are controlling that territory because they'll kill you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's well known. So in New York, the Dominicans have a good territory, the Mexicans have a territory, the Jamaicans have a territory, and they kind of stay in their own fiefdoms because they're making money. They're all making money and they don't want wars to disrupt business.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Chicago is not like that. Chicago in the primarily, in the black neighborhoods, there's no central crime authority. There's nobody like Mr. Big controlling the heroin and the cocaine and the methamphetamine and the marijuana. It's all over the place. It's this little gang and that little gang and they're just killing each other, sometimes for fun. And they all have beefs and they all of this and they all have that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the Chicago police are not liked, generally speaking, by African-Americans in Chicago. There's a fractious relationship. Where in New York, you don't really see that too much. You know, the cops can go into Harlem, they can go into Bed-Stuy and there's not a lot of... although a police officer was assassinated in the Bronx over the weekend. That's an isolated thing. You know, police shootings and killings are way down in New York. Way, way down. So is the murder rate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But in Chicago, the African-American community doesn't trust the police, so they're not informing on these gang people who are going out and popping everybody. Because they're in these neighborhoods that are black. And unless the local people say, you know what, this guy over here, he's killing people. And then the cops at least can take him in and question him and things like that. That doesn't happen much in Chicago.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the authorities there, who cannot figure out that the way to stop this is to flood the zone with police officers and National Guard. That's how you stop it. You don't solve it, but you stop it, at least temporarily.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, they just sit there and go <em>well it's the guns, that's the problem, it's the guns. It's not the drugs, not the culture, not the poverty, not the people not trusting the police, it's the guns.</em></p>
<p>You know, you're just sitting there and you're going like this because every big city in the country, every single big city has equal access to guns. You can buy them and you can take them into the city and you can sell them. And that's never going to stop.</p>
<p>There's 300 million guns in America right now. If you banned every gun sale, you still have 300 million guns. All that would happen is the price of the guns will go up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So it's a cultural problem and a law enforcement problem in Chicago. So people say to me, <em>well why would you put the National Guard in...</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You put the National Guard there because that's an inhibitor. If the National Guard sees someone or a group confronting another group violently they can break it up and they can hold those people until the police arrive.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if you have a riot situation, like you had in America's past, there were riots in L.A. and New York... you call the National Guard out because that stops the looting. Because they're there. And if you try to loot, they grab you and hold you until the police come.</p>
<p>Now, I did a lot of research on policing when I was at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I know what I'm talking about. You can stop crime, and they have in New York City, if you flood the zones where the crime is. So why aren't they doing that in Chicago? Why aren't there police and National Guard? All the governor has to do is call the guard out and put them there. A hundred, more than 100 people shot over the Fourth of July weekend in the nation's third largest city?&nbsp;</p>
<p>And how long this has been going on? See this is what I mean about this is inefficient government. Anybody voting for Rahm Emanuel as a mayor. Why? Why? He&rsquo;s not going to solve your problems.</p>
<p>And 100 people who were shot, you know, I don't know who they are, I don't know... I guess most of them have got to be gang people, but there's innocent people, we see it all the time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fifteen dead.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Over the weekend in Afghanistan, we don't have anything close to that. Afghanistan!&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, I've done what I can do. You know, I've tried to help Chicago out and I've talked to President Trump about it. He did the right thing sending in the federal agents. But now the Guard's got to go in there. And if the governor won't do it, I would suggest President Trump send the guard in, he has the power to do that. He can do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's a posse comitatus law that says national guard cannot arrest. But they can detain. Which is why President Bush sent a lot of them to the border when it was illegal aliens were flooding across it, Bush finally, you know, was ineffective, couldn't stop it, and he did, finally, send the guard to the border. And that stopped it, at least temporarily.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And by the way, there was an article in The New York Times that hates Trump saying that illegal crossings into the USA are way down. Way, way, way down. They're not even bothering to come anymore. And the price has gone so high that the poor migrants can't afford to get the people to cross them over. They said they're <em>not going to waste money because we know we're going to get, there's a good chance we'll get apprehended and deported</em>. So we're not going to waste 2000 dollars trying to get across. Interesting article.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, so that is the No Spin News. Let's do some mail, and we'll begin with Rosalie Alsante, Frankfort, New York: <em>wish I could get excited about Kate's Law but it has to go through the Senate. Holding my breath.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's going to be tough. It's going to be tough to get it through the Senate if McConnell doesn't really get behind it as he hasn't in the past. You've got to put public pressure on some Democrats to vote for Kate's Law. They need 60 votes. They've got about 55/56. Really, if the Democratic Party defeats Kate's Law... I mean, I don't know how anybody could ever vote for the party. I just don't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is Ernie in Brighton, Michigan. Now there's two ways to get to us. Ernie is a Premium Member on the message board. Thank you, Ernie. And then the first letter was Bill@BillOReilly.com, Bill@BillOReilly.com.</p>
<p>Ernie says: <em>Great podcast, Bill. I tried to send an e-mail to congressman Justin Amash, but because he's not in my district in Michigan I was blocked.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I understand that. Call him. Call his office. Justin Amash, the only Republican in the House of Representatives to vote against Kate's Law. And he represents I think it's Grand Rapids. No, no, it's... no, it might be outside Grand Rapids, central Michigan.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, Sam, Washington, Michigan: <em>Bill, you got me fired up. I just wrote to my senators, told them how I felt about their Kate's Law vote. Hopefully more of us will get our feelings to them. We're sick of the lawlessness, we want to protect our citizens.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's how you do it. Go write your senator right now and say we want you to vote for Kate's Law. Particularly if you're on the Democratic side. And if you're Republican, you can write to your senator if your senator's a Democrat and say please do this for the good of the country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Linda, Marietta, Georgia: <em>there's always been political differences but not to this level of destructiveness. It seems powerful, well-funded, intercontinental, interconnected forces behind the scenes are imposing their anti-American, anti-Judeo-Christian agenda, and the American people are only seeing a little of that.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sharyl Attkisson. Sharyl Attkisson is a reporter for Sinclair, has a book called Smear, the Smear documents it. I'm in the book. We're going to get Sharyl on, I hope, this week, maybe tomorrow. It's awful. Millions of dollars directed to destroying people with whom these far left, I'd say they're criminals, disagree.</p>
<p>Wait until you see what Sharyl has uncovered.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joan Ziegler, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: <em>Bill, please use whatever influence you may have with President Trump. If he doesn't start acting Presidential, you risk losing a large number of his supporters.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think his base is going to hang in. I don't think some of them are real thrilled about the personal attacks, but I think they loathe the people that he's attacking. I think his base stands at about 38 percent of the American public. I think that's going to hold unless craziness ensues. But he can build that base up if he gets the health care and tax cuts done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Peter Hibbert, Toronto, Canada: <em>I have no problem with President Trump attacking the media. The presidency should be above the disgraceful treatment to which it is constantly subjected. The media are nothing but hypocrites who insult Trump and call it criticism.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. I'm not going to disagree with that. The insults are at the heart of their analysis. I agree, Peter.</p>
<p>Ronald Gans, Bradenton Beach, Florida: <em>O'Reilly, can't wait to see you and Miller in Tampa in September. Why are all the Democrats transfixed on the idea that 22 million people lose medical coverage if the Republican bill passes.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because the goal for the Democratic Party is the one payer government run health system. That's the goal. Obamacare was the first step. Didn't work. Chaotic. Premiums going up for everybody in the working precincts. Insurance companies bailing out. Disaster. That's not going to stop the progressives.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They say, <em>well if we controlled it all, we being the federal government, that wouldn't happen. We'd force the insurance companies to do X, Y, and Z. We'd have insurance for everybody</em>. If you go back to the non-mandatory health insurance situation, at least 22 million Americans are going I'm not going to buy it. I don't want it, I don't have the money, I don't care about it, whatever.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then they can get back on the rolls because of preexisting conditions. It's a ruse. They want the British system or the Canadian system.&nbsp;</p>
<p>William is in Lake Elsinore, California. Nice place.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>If my knowledge of the Constitution is up to date, illegal aliens don't have any rights in the Constitution.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>No, that's wrong. Anybody who gets here has the right to due process. All of our rights in the legal system, anybody standing in America has those rights.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>You know, so great to hear that. That's the kid's book, When the World Went Nuclear, off Killing the Rising Sun. So, you know, again, we have a machine here, we try to educate everybody about what happened in history, it's very important to know that, because we're dealing with North Korea and nukes now, and this ties right into it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Talk to you again tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-07-05T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Kate's Law Passage & Trump's TweetBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Kates-Law-Passage--Trumps-Tweet/761187472591504723.html2017-06-30T02:17:00Z2017-06-30T02:17:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, big, big news day, for Thursday, June 29th 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kate's law has passed in the House of Representatives. The vote was 257 ayes. 167 nos. One Republican congressman voted against Kate's Law, that man is Justin Amash from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 3rd district.</p>
<p>Immediately, all the people in his district who are clear thinking, they should be looking at getting him out of there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>167 Democrats voted no for Kate's Law.</p>
<p>Now it's interesting in the sanctuary city bill passed, I'll give you the stats in a moment, but let's just talk about Kate's Law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I struggled to watch cable news today because that was the only forum where Kate's Law would be discussed and it wasn't. It was overwhelmed by the Trump tweet, which we'll get to in a moment. Couldn't find any coverage this morning on the hard news broadcasts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>CBS Radio, I listened to World News Roundup, didn't mention it. The left wing press, and CBS tilts liberal, they're not crazy liberal but they tilt that way, they don't want any of this immigration stuff. That's why you have 167 pinheads. And I don't say that in any ideological way or any party way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you're going to vote against a measure that would inhibit violent criminals from coming into these United States, if you're going to vote against that, you better have a damn good reason. They don't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oh, it really wouldn't do much... It's really not fair... and there might be an exception...&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's crap. Garbage.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The fact is that a 167 Congress people do not want to protect you. This was an easy vote. 24 Democrats voted for Kate's Law. And they of course will be scorned by Nancy Pelosi. But they stood up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Kate's Law, you may know, was named by me. I was so outraged by the murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco. And that case has not even been in court yet, if you can imagine this. Two years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The guy charged, deported five times, came back six, Mexican national drug dealer, seven felony convictions in the USA and you're still going to vote against Kate's Law.</p>
<p>I want a five-year minimum. They took the minimum out. So the law reads: If you come back after deportation and you're convicted of a felony here, you can get up to 10 years, gives the judge discretion. But you could get zero. But most likely you won't. You'll get some jail time. And it also gives the federal authorities the power to arrest on contact. They know if somebody defied importation, has a felony, they can just pick them up. Makes law enforcement easy.</p>
<p>Now it goes to the Senate where it needs 60 votes to pass. These arcane rules... and the best estimate is that about 56/57 now, a few Democrats will vote for it, but there'll be heavy pressure on Democrats not to vote for Kate's Law and not to get it in. Again, these people who vote against it have to be thrown out. Have to be thrown out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And liberal people, you just can't reason with them anymore. I used to be able to. Liberal people used to be able to be, <em>yeah this makes sense</em>. Not anymore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If Trump likes it, they oppose.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Kate's Law at least has passed the House. Been a long struggle. It'll bee interesting to see how Fox News handles my participation. I expect they'll ignore it, which all right. It's ok. You guys know, everybody knows.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now there was another immigration thing, a sanctuary city punishment passed 226 to 195. 7 Republicans voted against punishing sanctuary cities. 3 Democrats voted for that bill. It's a pretty simple bill.</p>
<p>If a municipality, a city, a county, doesn't hold an illegal alien criminal, if somebody has been arrested, for ICE to pick them up, they're denied funds from the Justice Department.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a little slap, not a big deal, but again, 195 Democrats no.</p>
<p>You know, it's getting harder and harder and harder to respect the Democratic party. And I'm not a party guy. I'm a registered Independent and I've voted for Democrats if I thought they were the best problem solvers. It's getting really hard now because it's so extreme, so fringe, so far out.</p>
<p>So now, this was important today, but as I said, it got very marginal coverage because what happened was Donald Trump tweeted out an attack against a woman named Mika Brzezinski. Now, if you were to walk out on that street in front of my house, stop people, and say, <em>do you know who Mika Brzezinski is?</em> Maybe 20 percent would know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>She does a morning show for MSNBC. She's a Trump hater, Trump basher, and constantly, over and over and over. But nobody knows who she is. Ratings... they crack a million they're celebrating over there. Nobody really pays attention.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But Trump, he is crazed by these people, by these media people who attack him. So he writes a tweet that says Ms. Brzezinski and her boyfriend, that's Scarborough, Joe Scarborough, they wanted to go to Mar-a-Lago on New Year's because they used to be pals with him or something and she had a face lift. And you know, he attacks her personally. Calls her a few names.</p>
<p>To me, if I'm advising Donald Trump, I say, <em>look, we know, we fair minded Americans, that you are getting hammered every single day of your life unfairly many times, but to punch down at that level, you don't gain anything.</em> That's my advice to Donald Trump, who would turn around and do exactly what he wants to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I was watching the press conference with Miss Sanders, Mike Huckabee's daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders; she handles the tough questions now for President Trump. And she basically said something that caught my attention. She said Americans elected Donald Trump because he's a fighter, because he doesn't take this kind of garbage, that he kicks back, and they want him to do that. That was Sarah Huckabee Sanders' analysis, and that's how she deflected every question, which dominated the press conference. No questions about Kate's Law. Zero. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm saying to myself, <em>you know what, I think this is a strategy now by President Trump, a strategy to decouple the American people, his supporters primarily, from the media</em>. So it's an us against them. It's President Trump and his crew against the Democratic Party and the media.</p>
<p>So he's creating this fissure, which was always there, but he's exacerbating it, making it a major issue. So that does two things. Number one, if he wants to divert attention from something he can go right into that. And number two, his base, the people who love him, are excited by that strategy. See what I mean?&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there's a downside on a day like today. And the downside is that you obscure a very important vote on Kate's Law and the sanctuary cities. Nobody's paying attention to it. Even after Kate's Law passed, and that was about five-thirty, I turned on the cables. Nobody was covering it. Are you kidding me?&nbsp;</p>
<p>The liberals were covering the tweets. Fox, it's a whole different ballgame over there, I don't know what they were doing. I couldn't figure it out, I think it was healthcare though, and I'll get to that in a moment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what President Trump did by this personal attack on Ms. Brzezinski was he obscured a very important situation to confront violent illegal aliens and to confront sanctuary cities that harbor them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Remember, San Francisco County harbored the guy who killed Kate Steinle. ICE wanted him held, but San Francisco County let him out so he could kill Kate Steinle. I mean, it's as simple as that. The guy's going to get convicted. I mean, his defense is he found the gun and was playing with it and then shot the girl in the head. Come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So on the Trump tweeting, he's using that as a strategy. But I would say, you can punch back but you can't punch back down that much, because what's happening now, and again, I don't think it's going to affect President Trump very much, they're making it a feminist issue, a women's issue... he hates women and they're dragging Megyn Kelly back up and all of this, you know, they're going to do that no matter what, but you help them almost by those kinds of tweets.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If somebody is attacking me, and I usually don't respond to the attacks until I have to. And I will be in the coming weeks giving you some information about people who have attacked me, but it will be solid, good information, information that we're going to act upon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if you're going to just tweet back and forth, you've got to be artful in the way you word it. So if Donald Trump was offended, as obviously he is by this morning program on MSNBC that nobody watches, he can just say something like: these people are irresponsible, their ratings reflect that. I just want you to know that I'm going to ignore it and whatever they say really doesn't matter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's all. If you have to do it.</p>
<p>This also does something that Donald Trump, I don't know if he understands, but tomorrow on that program their ratings will triple. So it helps them. It makes her, Miss Brzezinski, an object of sympathy. So people who never even watch the show will watch it tomorrow. And the liberal networks tonight, will go wall to wall on this, with the women, <em>oh yeah he hates women</em>... and their ratings will go up. Their ratings will go up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he actually is helping the people who want to hurt him, the president.</p>
<p>Tomorrow, maybe there will be a vote on health care but I don't think so. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Again, the Wall Street Journal really has the best take on it. If you get a chance, read their editorial, lead editorial today, on why this bill is necessary, why it should pass at this point. I'm not an expert, I've told you many times, in the micro of these kinds of things. It runs a thousand pages long.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's impossible to really tell you if your premiums are going to go down. It looks to me like they will, but you know, who knows?&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's tomorrow. And we have a very interesting discussion with John Stossel, our pal, the libertarian. I would have usually incorporated into this No Spin News, but because we had to do it so late waiting for the vote, we've broken Stossel out. So you just <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Premium-Member-Exclusive:-Bill--John-Stossel-on-Healthcare-and-Libertarianism/209725871816031955.html" target="_blank">watch that interview on BillOReilly.com</a> separately, and everybody can see it. And that's about a libertarian, Stossel's point of view on what the government owes Americans in the health arena.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if Stossel were the dictator, what he would give us from the feds as far as health is concerned. How he would do that. Fascinating. I think you'll like it. Again, that's separate from what we have here on this reportage tonight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I just want to recap that Kate's Law, so if you don't know, is named after Kate Steinle, 32 year old woman, shot and killed in 2015 by an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times. That man is still not put on trial. And this bill enhances penalties for convicted and deported criminals who re-enter the USA.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yet, 166 Democrats and one Republican voted against the bill. It's just... there's no excuse. The Republican is Justin Amash from Michigan.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The sanctuary city punishment, which denies justice department funds to municipalities that do not hold criminals when ICE asks them to hold on a detainer, passed 226 to 195. 3 Democrats voted for it and 7 Republicans voted against.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you can see the Democratic Party does not want to control violent criminal aliens. They don't. And again, when you're looking at the parties and you're balancing... I mean, Republicans give you a massive headache, and a lot of their stuff is way out there. But on balance, the Democratic Party doesn't care, has no solutions at all, and these bills are so simple, and they're right, and they still vote against them?</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-30T02:17:00ZO'Reilly on the Kate's Law Vote, Dennis Miller Talks Sarah PalinBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Kates-Law-Vote-Dennis-Miller-Talks-Sarah-Palin/-906243925072653238.html2017-06-29T00:52:00Z2017-06-29T00:52:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, and it is the 28 of June already. Beautiful day out here on Long, Island New York. Everybody getting ready for the Fourth of July holiday. Now extend that weekend five days if you can, celebrating the nation's independence.</p>
<p>So, we have some big news today, because tomorrow the House is going to vote on H.R. 303 and H.R. 304. If I can get them up here - 303 is Kate's Law. As we explained yesterday, no mandatories and that's what I call for - I branded this Kate's Law. I hate to say that. It sounds like I'm bragging. I'm not bragging. We were doing extensive coverage on Kate Steinle's murder in San Francisco. It was appalling.</p>
<p>The drug dealer who allegedly killed her in that trial is going to be under way soon. You know he was deported five times, came back six times. Some people even say seven times.</p>
<p>It's outrageous, disgusting. And the first time Kate's Law came up, it was voted down in the Senate because they attached to a sanctuary city law. This time the H ouse made Kate's Law 303 and the sanctuary city law 304. So two separate laws, two separate votes.</p>
<p>So, the reason, as I explained yesterday, I don't want to belabor this, that I had called for a five year mandatory sentence on felons who are deported and come back to this country. Mandatory sentences - some legislators don't like them, takes discretion away from judges and prosecutors.</p>
<p>So they say no more than 10 years.</p>
<p>But it is mandatory prison time, and it gives the ICE agents a lot more leeway to pick people up, so they don't have to commit a crime, all the have to do is be back here.</p>
<p>And then they get picked up and charged. All right. So I think Kate's Law will pass fairly handily tomorrow in the house. Any Democrat who votes against it, it's going to be used against them in the elections of 2018.... OK. And they know it.</p>
<p>Now the other law, I'm going to read you, some of it, because it's a little more complicated but very important. This is the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the re-entry of removed aliens. OK. I'm sorry I got mixed up. 304 is Kate's Law, 303 the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify provisions relating to assistance by states and political subdivision of states in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and for other purposes.</p>
<p>It's a long way to go here. But let me let me read you a good summary and this is from Breitbart.</p>
<p>The website Breitbart: no sanctuary city for criminals act is basically a bill that denies federal law enforcement grants, money, to local cops. All right. If the jurisdiction, whether it be a city or county, does not cooperate with federal immigration authorities in holding people who are detained.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if ICE issues a detainer, please hold that as they did in Kate's Law to the guy who allegedly killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco County said blank you we're letting him go. All right. If they do that, then they don't get any federal grants in law enforcement area from the Department of Justice.</p>
<p>Now this one is going to be harder to pass than Kate's Law, because the Democrats cater and pander to the immigrant lobby and this one punishes sanctuary cities. All right.</p>
<p>So, it's a pretty interesting play. Both laws should be passed. And Trump will sign both of them. The president will sign both.</p>
<p>All right.</p>
<p>And they are telling me the votes will come next week.</p>
<p>So that's what essentially it is, that if you are a felon or convicted of three misdemeanors, and you're a foreign national, and deported you come back. Get up to 10 years in prison - but no mandatories. Judge has discretion. OK.</p>
<p>But you would think that most judges would send them to federal prison for while.</p>
<p>And the other one is if you don't cooperate with ICE on a detainer it's all we're asking if we ask to detain you detain. You don't, no money.</p>
<p>They both should pass. We will let you know what happens. Pretty interesting.</p>
<p>I think that this never would have happened if Democrats controlled the Congress.</p>
<p>OK, let's get segue into the media and then we're going to talk to Dennis Miller about the media and what he's doing this summer.</p>
<p>Miller is on deck.</p>
<p>CNN had to retract a story about a man named Anthony Scaramucci who lives out here on Long Island who is a Trump supporter, a financier, who CNN accused of being involved with the Russians.</p>
<p>Scaramucci was not.</p>
<p>Scaramucci, wealthy man, threatened CNN with a massive lawsuit. CNN retracted this story because they had no basis to report it. Just because somebody tells you something is doesn't mean it's true. Just because somebody makes an allegation doesn't mean it's true. And if you're going to say it's true, and you're a media outlet, you are going to get in trouble.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then they fired, CNN fired three people were involved the story producers. Now Miller says, and you'll hear him in a minute, that's because of the AT&amp;T-Time Warner merger that's in play. AT&amp;T a much more conservative outfit than Time Warner. And they're going, what the hell are you doing at CNN?</p>
<p>You all know the reputation that CNN and MSNBC now have. Trump haters, fabrications. You know it. And while the Trump, anti-Trump lobby applauds those networks, the folks, even if you don't like President Trump, you want fair play, right? You want accurate reporting, right?</p>
<p>So we were always proud, when I was doing the television program, we have to retract any stories. You know I made one mistake a long time ago by taking a portion of a web site video that involved the Secretary of Agriculture and running it.</p>
<p>And it wasn't quite into context and I told my staff never ever. You listen to top to bottom. You don't take clips ever again.</p>
<p>And we went on the air and we said we did that and it was not right. But that was it. Pretty good record. Twenty years plus. All right.</p>
<p>So, anyway, CNN is, I think, their image has been damaged - up to you to make that call.</p>
<p>Ratings, look, all the ratings and we willll again mention this to Miller are up because Trump is in the White House and there is controversy after controversy after controversy.</p>
<p>But CNN's clearly the third rated network now. All right and Fox has lost a lot of mojo to MSNBC because MSNBC just does we hate Trump and there is an audience for that.</p>
<p>Saturday Night Live up 30 percent this year, basically on hating Trump. Audience for it! Colbert, number three in late night, goes to number one in late night because it's all hate Trump all the time.</p>
<p>There are a lot of Americans who want to see that every second.</p>
<p>The other media story is Sarah Palin suing the New York Times. The former Governor of Alaska and former Vice Presidential nominee was mocked in an editorial by the New York Times in a way that was dishonest.</p>
<p>The Times saying that her PAC, political action committee, had something to do with the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona. Not true, so, Governor Palin said, look I've had enough. The New York Times has been merciless on her. So I'm suing for defamation. You defame me. You had to know this wasn't true. Everybody knew it wasn't true. The Times did, you know, correct the record, but come on.</p>
<p>You know, it was a hit piece, and this was off the shooting of Congressman Scalise, of course. They try to tie Palin and get this together while reporting that story. It's nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty, isn't it?</p>
<p>Boy, is it nasty.</p>
<p>So anyway, Sarah Palin, you know she's kicking it up and we will follow that story for you. So all of this is in play, and out on the West Coast, our pal Dennis Miller is watching it, even as he enjoys a very nice summer.</p>
<p>Roll it.</p>
<p>Bill: Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin suing the New York Times. We went over it before you came on the line. She's basically saying look I'm tired of getting smeared by these people even though they retracted this story. I'm going after. What do you think about that?</p>
<p>Miller: Well, remember when Ossoff was running in Georgia-6, and they thought that they might have found that template in how to defeat the Republicans in the Trump era.</p>
<p>Well I think after that guy, Hulk Hogan, was financed by the entrepreneur up in the Pacific Northwest to get Gawker, I think there's a template now on how to win these suits, and I think Sarah Palin's going to jump in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think she might even be using the team from that.</p>
<p>And you know, Bill, we just live in a world where, you know, people always say, oh you hear about Sarah Palin from everybody - even a lot of people on the right, which is dumb.</p>
<p>And I always think, listen, I don't think Sarah Palin is Madame Curie, but do I think Pinch or whatever his name is - the old man - but the simple fact is I don't think he's a genius. I think he's run that thing into the ground.</p>
<p>And you know what, when you mix that in with the fact that electronic media is the future, and they still pay attention too much to their, you know, their news print version. Quite frankly, the New York Times is no longer the paper of the record as I've said before it's a building's front in Manhattan that foreign acrobats like to climb.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill: Well, I think Perelman's going to get a nice check. I think they'll settle it because they don't want to be embarrassed, go through the process of having all their people deposed. And look, I've been for years telling everybody, if you are reading these newspapers and you are believing what they tell you, all right, you're a fool. Because it is all ideological now. These are not honest people across the board.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that's that.</p>
<p>So summertime you know--</p>
<p>Miller: The New York Times might as well make Jayson Blair there ombudsman.</p>
<p>Bill: Blair was a guy who was working for The New York Times, reporter, who plagiarized stories and was fired. And they recently did away with their real ombudsman, The New York Times, they let her go, because they don't want to have anybody looking at what they're doing.</p>
<p>So, they made an economic decision we're going to target urban liberals. That's how we're going to make our money. And that's that.</p>
<p>And that's--</p>
<p>Miller: --You know what. The woman they let go will have a massive suit in the politically correct culture gone mad, for saying that they hurt her feelings when they called her the ombudsman and she wanted to be called the ombuds-person. So you know that's what the New York Times.</p>
<p>Bill: Now summertime and the living is easy out there in Santa Barbara, California. Number one, Miller, I don't know if you guys know this, is a voracious reader.</p>
<p>He reads more than I do on the planes where we go all over the place. Miller and I discuss all these books. Miller is better read than I am. So what are you reading this summer?</p>
<p>Miller: Well I'm going to trace it right now. Right now I'm reading a book called The Only Way to Cross by John Maxton Graham. It's about transatlantic crossings in the late 1800s. And you know, beyond the Titanic even. But about all those great ocean liners. And it's weird Billy, because I'm reading the chapter right now about the Olympia and the Titanic, and it's not about the Titanic sinking, it's more about the boats and the service that was provided, and all the schematics and all that.</p>
<p>But I do have a letter from the Titanic that I bought at auction. So I read the book. Look at the picture on the Titanic and then go in and I have a train a thing where it will never fade it's it's a letter from the lady right. Yeah. Well she got one on the first stop and wrote a letter to her boyfriend, she was a maid to a rich lady. And in the Play-Doh, in the letters, she says, when this massive ship pulled out of a ship yesterday it sucked the HMS New York out in the slip with them they almost collided.</p>
<p>Can you imagine the headlines?</p>
<p>And it's dated three weeks before, so it really trippy thing, so I am reading that. I just got a copy from a friend Scott AYMAN, who is a great Hollywood writer, a book called Hank and Jim, it's the fifty year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart.</p>
<p>And the last book I am reading came from my son, I am only 10 pages in and it is going to take me a long time. It is by Vladimir Nabokov it is called Pale Fire and it is this brilliantly constructed book about 999 line epic poem written by a guy named, John Shea and then it's all the annotation of the poem by a guy named Charles Himbull. Who also is Nabokov!</p>
<p>So Nabakov wrote the book, he wrote the poem, he wrote the commentary all under three different guises, and I'm trying! I'll let you know how I progress on that, but it might be smarter than me, this book.</p>
<p>Bill: Well it's pretty intellectual, but Miller, I'm sending you, I don't think you have a copy of Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, you are going to like it, I am going to send you a copy out. It's hefty but it's a good read.</p>
<p>Now, I have one question about the woman on the Titanic. You bought her letter: did she survive the sinking; do you know?</p>
<p>Miller: Yes.</p>
<p>Bill: She did.</p>
<p>Miller: Yes, she survived, and she went on to marry the guy. Her, mistress, the lady boss, survived. The husband did not, though. He got into his finery and went down with the ship. But it is an interesting letter, man, to look write up at that letterhead that says "from on board the HMS Titanic" two days before it sunk, it always gives me chills when I look at it.</p>
<p>Bill: My. Very interesting. So you're going to relax out there for a while then you usually travel in the summer.</p>
<p>What else do you do to while away the summer hours? A hobby? Do you do anything else? Gardening, that kind of thing?</p>
<p>Miller: I read somewhere at my age 63 if I could run a nine-minute mile. So around your neighborhood school tracker. And two minutes and 15 seconds a lap, it's hardly burning it up but for my age I would be right on the mean. Good shape. You know right in the middle where I should be.</p>
<p>So I'm at around 9:40 and I'm trying to get down to 9:00. That's where I'll be heading.</p>
<p>Bill: Wow! How often do you go out and run around?</p>
<p>Miller: Not everyday. You either run, walk, or do splits where I try to get my time down. But I don't want to sound like I am competitive. Big fish in a slow pond.</p>
<p>Bill: I am going to need video of that, Miller. I am going to send a camera crew out. I want the sprints, but I want to see, I admire you for doing the exercise, but I want to see the outfit!</p>
<p>I want to see the outfit that you have on while you are doing all this exercise. I didn't know you were you were doing that. I didn't know you were running around like that. That's very admirable!</p>
<p>Miller: I'm on the paleo run thing, I go out in Berkeley, I read that cavemen ran like this. So, you are supposed to imagine a T-Rex over your shoulder and that helps your time.</p>
<p>Bill: OK. Final question. Fourth of July.</p>
<p>How do you celebrate the nation's independence? I know you're a patriot, I know you feel deeply for your country. Over the years that you and I have been on TV, that has come out time and time again.</p>
<p>How does Dennis Miller celebrate the Fourth of July?</p>
<p>Miller: Well let's see I don't have a - I try to have corn on the cob and remember that I live in a place where, I don't know, Bill, listen - it's the best place in the world by light years.</p>
<p>Now does that mean what it used to in the world that seems to be quite frankly in a bit of a spiral down? No, it's sort of like being valedictorian in summer school. That being said, it is still the greatest country, and the main reason that it is, and a thing I try to think about all patriotic holidays, I think we've got Veterans Day coming up, we only have this because of those young people providing it to us. So, you know, I don't think about the Founding Fathers as much. George Washington's got his place for all time. I think about the 19 or 20-year-old kid who goes over the shithole and protects me and my family, and I thank them. So that's what I do.</p>
<p>I always take the opportunity to thank those who provided to us I.E. troops.</p>
<p>Bill: You a fireworks guy, and that kind of thing? Or are you just low key and reflect?</p>
<p>Miller: Well this year, we're going to put the two guys you are with, Ben and the other guy over there, we have decided we are going to put an M-80 under the toilets there in the studio just to see what that&rsquo;s like.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill: Give me a little jolt, yeah.</p>
<p>Miller: As you have video of me running...</p>
<p>Bill: I got to get that. I'm definitely going to get that. I want to tell everybody that Miller and I only have four shows left in 2017.</p>
<p>We'll be in Baltimore on the 22nd of September.</p>
<p>Tampa at the Amalie Arena the next night. Saturday September 23rd.</p>
<p>Shows are a blast. We do have a Miller O'Reilly clip from the last show on Long Island, and it's free, you can just look at it and find out what you're getting.</p>
<p>And we'll go to Caesar's Palace, a perennial sell-out, only a few tickets left there. That'll be on December 15. Friday night.</p>
<p>Anaheim, California. The next night Saturday Honda Center. Huge crowd going to be there in Anaheim.</p>
<p>So if you want to see Miller and O'Reilly in person, we will link you right over the box offices.</p>
<p>You have a nice Fourth, Miller. Thanks for talking to me. Really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Miller: Bill, can I ask you a question? We've got looser constraints here on the podcast. That's the nice thing about it as compared to the hard breaks on TV.</p>
<p>But you and Trump go way back, I know you used to double date. Did you always know that he was a Russian agent?</p>
<p>Bill: You know, when he wore the bushka hat to the Net game, I had a little inkling.</p>
<p>And it's interesting you bring that up Miller because at the end of this No Spin News I'm going to show all the folks something very interesting about Donald Trump - it's a visual.</p>
<p>So I'm glad you brought it up.</p>
<p>But you know, I always knew that Trump may have a little, little thing there but I wasn't sold on it.</p>
<p>Miller: It's the least communist guy I've ever seen in my life so far.</p>
<p>But so is Putin! Putin is stealing them blind over there! All right Miller, you have a good time and thanks for talking to us.</p>
<p>Miller: Bye bye.</p>
<p>For time purposes we took about five minutes out of the Miller interview, but you can see the whole thing on this website right here.</p>
<p>If you care to take a look, and we do hope you come see Miller and me on the live Spin Stops Here shows.</p>
<p>All right.</p>
<p>Health care.</p>
<p>Vote is delayed as you know. Now Friday something might happen. They all want to go home. The senators you know I don't mind them coming back after the Fourth of July and voting on a revised health care bill .</p>
<p>If it doesn't pass, it's going to hurt the Republican Party, no matter how they spin it. You know, I can't get really involved in partisan politics. The bill to me looks flawed but it looks like it would reduce spending in that area, get at least under control, apply a little discipline to it. I think it would bring down your premiums. I'm not sure, nobody is, but there is a good chance it would.</p>
<p>It's a mess.</p>
<p>You know it's a mess.</p>
<p>The whole health care thing as we discussed. So we'll see what happens on Friday.</p>
<p>Trump is out there saying you know, they're having great meetings with Republican senators, he's confident, maybe.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Maybe.</p>
<p>I have no expectation here at all. I'm just watching it as you are.</p>
<p>Interesting study. I have culled for you from, what outfit is this? The American Time Use Survey, how we use our time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I love this.</p>
<p>Last year 2016 Americans slept eight hours and 30 minutes, eight and a half hours, on average that's how much we sleep.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we have some Rip Van Winkles out there. So we've been 12-13 because you know you have workaholics like President Trump, sleeping four or five. Averages out to eight and a half hours which I think is pretty good.</p>
<p>You know I like eight and a half hours. And that fell by five minutes from 2015. Who cares.</p>
<p>Working. This is interesting.</p>
<p>Employed women American women averaged six hours 22 minutes a day in the workplace. That doesn't count home. 6-22. They worked. Down nine minutes from 2015.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Men worked seven hours 55 minutes, almost eight hours. It's an increase of seven minutes. So there's like an hour and a half more that men work and women work.</p>
<p>A lot of that I think has to do with scheduling kids.</p>
<p>You know, I don't think it has to do with anything that's nefarious. Scheduling. You know women have to have jobs where they have to be home at a certain time. Kids come home from school that kind of thing. And that's reasonable, an eight hour day is reasonable, six 22 is reasonable for women with children.</p>
<p>And finally there was a play, it's over now, in Central Park in New York City. And it was a Shakespeare play on Julius Caesar. And in the end as you know Caesar gets assassinated on the Ides of March. But they made Caesar, Trump. And it caused outrage and all that. Listen to this.</p>
<p>After that happened, after the press coverage and everybody was angry and all of that stuff, the National Endowment for Arts gave the theater company that did that play $100,000 do another.</p>
<p>That's your money, my money.</p>
<p>No. We shouldn't have that. We owe 20 trillion dollars! If communities want to put on plays, let them pay for it themselves.</p>
<p>New York City is very wealthy. Want to put on plays in Central Park? You can raise the money. You don't need tax money to do it. Now this isn't a political thing even if they had made Trump the greatest hero in the world in the play. I would tell you no tax money. No. All right, local can handle it.</p>
<p>Thanks for being Premium Members. Big day tomorrow with Kate&rsquo;s Law. We'll be right here at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-29T00:52:00ZO'Reilly on the Obama/Russia Mystery & Kate's Law UpdateBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Obama/Russia-Mystery--Kates-Law-Update/-74688431827050129.html2017-06-27T23:00:00Z2017-06-27T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, June 27 2017.</p>
<p>OK so Kate's Law, remember Kate's Law? I coined it and got behind it a couple of years ago after Kate Steinle was killed in San Francisco by an illegal alien, allegedly, but I think the man will be convicted, who defied deportation six times.</p>
<p>He was a drug dealer, a drug user, and he killed Kate on the wharf in San Francisco while she was walking with her father. Big story. Big deal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This week, H.R., that's the House resolution, three thousand four, 3004, will be voted upon. Finally. You remember that Kate's Law was voted down because it was attached to another bill on immigration. And I said, look, just vote on it separately.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here's what the bill says: that if you have a felony or three misdemeanor convictions, and that you come into this country after being deported once, that you can get up to 10 years in prison. No mandatory that's five years or anything like that. I called for a mandatory sentence of five years and up. They haven't done that. They, the Republicans in the House. Because a lot of the politicians don't like mandatory sentencing. They want to give the discretion to the judges. So it's up to 10 years. Let me repeat. Convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors in the United States, you're deported. You come back, you can get up to 10 years.</p>
<p>Now, the benefit of that is that you don't have to commit another crime, if ICE finds you, they put you right in the system. Alright, right in the system so that people, criminals who have been deported can be rounded up if ICE knows where they are and then the trial begins. This also gives a plea bargain, you can get up to 10, but if you admit to it we'll give you five, whatever. I understand. I just think it was more of a deterrent if you know you're going to get five, so you could go five to ten. They didn't do it. But I'm not... I want the law to pass. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Secondly if you're removed three times, deported three times and you come back, same deal, you could get up to 10 years. So no more of these six, seven, eight, nine.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They're going to give you three shots at the apple though. I would have made it two.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the reason this law is necessary is to give federal immigration authorities another tool to round up bad guys. So they're going to vote on it in the House. I expected it to pass in the House, but I want to know, and I will list them, who votes against it. It's going to be all Democrats. I don't think there's going to be any Republicans because they took out that mandatory thing. A lot of Republicans, not a lot, but some Republicans don't like the mandatory sentencing. They took it out. Up to 10 years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So ostensibly, you could have a liberal judge who won't give you anything. I don't think that will happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right there's another bill that they're going to vote on as well on sanctuary cities, a little more complicated. That if an ICE agent asks for a detainer, you have to hold them or you get punished in some way. That's evolving. But that's supposed to be voted on too.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When I get the absolute wording on it, which would be tomorrow, I will read it to you, of course. So we'll bring it to you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think both will pass in the House. I can't imagine the Senate not passing this Kate's Law thing. But you know. But whoever votes against it, then in their districts this can be used against them. So Kate's Law, thank God, finally on track after years. I'm not on television anymore to lend that club. But I wanted you guys, BillOReilly.com Premium Members to know this is coming to fruition. And I do believe it will be law.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I believe it will get through the Senate. I don't see any Republicans voting against this. And of course President Trump will sign it. So we did a good thing. You, me, and it's all coming up this week.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The health care vote is delayed in the Senate. No surprise. McConnell didn't have the votes till after 4th of July. They'll tinker around with it. You're never going to get Rand Paul to vote for it, ever. So they have to convince all the other senators except one. I guess Heller out in Nevada, he wants to expand Medicaid. This is all about containment of cost.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here's some facts. Wall Street Journal, a great quote, I'm going to read it to you right out of their editorial. Quote, Wall Street Journal today.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Repairing the failing individual insurance market, putting Medicaid on budget for the first time in the entitlement's history, and passing an enormous pro-growth tax cut, are historic opportunities</em>, says The Wall Street Journal. <em>If reluctant GOP senators think they won't be held accountable for a defeat they should think again.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's true. If Ted Cruz and Mike Lee vote against it they'll be held accountable, because that'll give the Democrats a huge, huge victory. It's all about free health care. That's what this is all about. The Democrats want unlimited free healthcare for poor Americans, or Americans who don't have very much. The Republicans want to cap it, Medicaid, so they're giving the states money but you can't get over a certain amount.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the Congressional Budget Office, which I don't believe, they'll just pull stuff out of the sky, they say two things: that about four hundred billion dollars will be saved if this bill passes over a 10-year period or maybe less than that. Is that a lot of money? Yeah, it comes off the deficit. It's not trillions, it's 400 billion over a number of years. But they also say, the CBO, that 22 million Americans will, quote, <em>lose healthcare</em>.</p>
<p>It's a ruse. The 22 million are those who won't buy it. No matter what. No matter what.</p>
<p>Now if it's delivered to them at their doorstep they'll take it. That's what Obamacare does. You know, if they have to enroll online or whatever they'll do that, but once Obamacare goes away and you're not forced to buy health insurance as you are now, about 22 million of us, <em>eh, I'm not going to do it. For whatever reason, eh, I'm not going to sign up</em>. They're not getting anything taken away from them. They're just not, they're just refusing to go through the steps of protecting themselves against disease. Why should they?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because if they wait and don't pay any premiums they can still buy it if they get cancer. Because you can't ban preexisting conditions, which is one of the flaws of the bill. But it's a catch-22. At least the Republican bill says insurance companies can raise the premium to a preexisting person by about 30 percent. Now the Democrats are all going to vote against that. All going to vote against destroying Obamacare down the line. Maybe Joe Manchin, maybe, from West Virginia, would come over, maybe.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But it's all about capping Medicaid. That's why Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, <em>oh I can't vote for this because it caps Medicaid</em>. See what the Republicans want to do is they want to get this entitlement spending under control somehow. Let the states administrate, but the feds rolling in a certain amount of money. And that's going to be capped. Democrats don't want that. We've still got a 20 trillion-dollar debt. Do Democrats care? No.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Obama ran the debt up more than every other president combined. You know, the excuse was the economy is going to go into depression if I don't. Baloney. OK. He was just an income redistributor, income redistributive guy. That's right. He wanted to redistribute income. So he didn't care how much debt he ran up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So William Devane is out there every day going, <em>hey, you've got to buy gold, the dollar is going to fall apart. </em>Well, you know, old Bill Devane someday might be right. Paper money may go...you know, gold might mean something. It means something now, but not to the extent that it would if the currency collapsed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, McConnell, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, says <em>all right, I know we don't have the votes now, let's put it off till we come back from our vacation</em>, which will be two weeks or whatever. I think it's going to get through the Senate. They'll tweak it a little bit more. I think it will. I could be wrong.</p>
<p>President Obama and Russia. I told you yesterday, big, big story. Nobody's covering it. Not even Fox News. I'll run through it really quickly and then I'll expand the story.</p>
<p>August 2016, President Obama gets word Russians are trying to hack into varying campaign computers. October 7th 2016, the president, knowing the election is one month away, gets information from the director of National Intelligence and the head of the CIA that Russia has definitely hacked into the DNC, John Podesta, and is putting out information damaging to Hillary Clinton.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Definitely knows it October 7th. Says nothing. Does that makes sense to you?&nbsp;</p>
<p>If I'm a Democratic president, I want another Democratic president to follow me. I'm out there holding a press conference going, <em>look at this. Look at this. Russia is rooting for Trump, trying to harm Hillary Clinton.</em> Right? Isn't that what you'd do.</p>
<p>Instead, Barack Obama classifies all this stuff and says nothing. At the same time, he's going out campaigning for Hillary Clinton and badmouthing Trump.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Zero sense, makes zero sense.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Newt Gingrich knows it. So on Hannity last night Gingrich is going <em>hey, bring him in. The president, Obama, in, have him testify under oath to a congressional committee</em>, and I understand the Trey Gowdy committee, I forget the name of it, is going to do that, or try to do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Obama's going to claim classified, can't talk about it. Which is why he classified it in the first place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's exactly what's going to happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You're not going to see him under oath testifying in front of any committees. It's classified, you can't. He won't even do a closed door. So that tells me a couple of things: A, the president classified this information on October 7th about the Russians intruding on our election for a reason, he didn't want to talk about it. B, Barack Obama knew everything that was going on, the WikiLeaks, the hacking, DNC problems, Clinton being favored over Sanders, the whole magilla. He knew. Didn't alert us. It's our election, the folks don't have a right to know? Not a word.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again, doesn't make any sense. Barack Obama is a methodical man. He doesn't do things emotionally. Donald Trump does, he acts out of emotion. Not Barack Obama.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Everything is planned, everything is calculated. Every word he says. There's got to be a reason that the President of the United States in October 2016 did not alert the voting public about Russia trying to influence the election. There has to be a reason he didn't do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, if I were CNN, or MSNBC, or even Fox News in some quarters, I would now enter the valley of speculation. Love that valley, don't you? Well, it could have been. Now you guys can do that. I know I'm going to get letters overnight and you're going to speculate all over the place and I'll read some of your letters. I will read some of your letters tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I can't. I can't.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Do I have stuff rattling around in this brain? Yes I do. Is it responsible for me to tell you speculation? It is not. It's unfair.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I will give you an example. I got a letter today that said, oh, Barack Obama didn't want Hillary Clinton to win. That's why he didn't say anything.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Speculation. Could be true.</p>
<p>But it's hard for me to believe that Barack Obama would want Trump instead of Hillary Clinton when Hillary Clinton would have done every single thing Obama did and Trump's dismantling every single thing. It's hard for me to believe that. It doesn't make any sense to me. So I'm rejecting that speculation. Not that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there's something sinister. And there is. I don't know if we're going to find out anytime soon. The president can use classified briefings to block any testimony on this item. The only way this could get out would be a leak from somebody in Barack Obama's inner circle who knew why the president didn't say anything. The odds of that happening are about 10000 to one. Barack Obama didn't confide in anybody other than his wife and what's her name, the consigliere... I'll think of it. Two people. That's it. He didn't confide in Biden, didn't confide in Hillary Clinton, didn't confide in anybody.</p>
<p>He's a very disciplined guy, Barack Obama. He wasn't <em>blah, blah, blah, blah, blah</em>. It's like Trump is like all over the place. All right. No. Barack Obama, no. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Two people he confided in and that was it and they'll never tell. So it was a tough story to crack, very tough story to crack. But I will tell you, in my lifetime this is one of these things where I know there's something here that we all should know, and why the president of the United States did not give the nation, which was voting in one month for president, information about Russians trying to interfere in our electoral process. Huge.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Turn on the cable news, you're not going to hear about it. Nope. Not seeing any investigative reporting by The Washington Post or the New York Times.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nope, because they all know there's something wrong here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is a huge break for Donald Trump. And he knows it. He tweeted about it a couple of times. Because now the suspicion about Russian activity shifts from him, because there's been no evidence linking him to any Russians, to Barack Obama. That's why the press isn't covering the story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm trying to do this in a very disciplined, methodical way because I don't want to be Rachel Maddow, a conspiratorialist. I don't want to ever come anywhere near that. I don't want anything close to that on my resume.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you guys are getting this from me based upon what we know. What we know. We know the President was told. We know Mr. Obama didn't say anything. We know the pro-Obama media doesn't want to cover the story. We know all that.</p>
<p>Good week for Donald Trump. This is a great... it was interesting, the headline on the Wall Street Journal is: <em>Trump gets partial victory on the travel ban</em>, and the editorial is: <em>Trump got everything he wanted except for one thing.</em> The editorial page in The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the news pages are liberal. Interesting newspaper. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But he won the travel ban thing. The Supreme Court said judges cannot dictate national security policy. Threw all the judges out. So the president, if he wants to suspend for 90 days from these six countries, they can. Only exception is if you have a relative over there. It's meaningless. It's meaningless. And the Supreme Court was smart. Because by the time they hear this in October, and remember, the Supreme Court, they're done for the summer, they get the whole summer off those guys, lucky guys. OK. So by the time they come back and hear this, there's not going to be any more travel ban, it will be all done because it's a 90-day thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then there was a ruling by the Supreme Court that said a Lutheran church in the Midwest is entitled to get funds from the state to build a parking lot because all the other schools are getting funds to build parking lots. You can't exclude a religious school because that's biased against religion. Right? Doesn't that make sense?</p>
<p>You are not forcing anybody to go to the parking lot of the Lutheran church or school, you're not forcing... <em>you drive into that Lutheran parking lot</em>. No, that's what separation of church and state is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the poor Lutherans go, <em>look, everybody's get all this money, we need some money to get a parking lot, and you deny it because we're Lutherans, we're Christians?</em></p>
<p>The Supreme Court says <em>no, you can't do that</em>. Good for them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And there were a couple of other rulings, they're not that important. They will take the case of a baker who says, I don't want to make cakes for gay weddings. That will be an interesting thing whether that man has the freedom to do that, and I suspect five to four, the Supreme Court will say he has the right not to make the cakes. I suspect that will be the ruling.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I found a story that I think you're going to like, and then I've got a surprise for you. And then we're going to read some mail.</p>
<p>This is a study out of the Wakefield Research Institute, published in The Washington Examiner.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The study says that 24 percent of Americans who are married or dating, 24 percent, report that since Donald Trump was elected president they've disagreed or argued about politics with their partner, or date, whatever, more than ever. 33 percent of people who did not vote for President Trump said they'd consider a divorce if their spouse did. That number rises to forty-three percent of millennials. So if you're married and you voted for Trump but your wife/husband didn't, don't say anything unless you want to get divorced.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's all about emotion. It's all about craziness. I mean, I've got to tell you, in my life, one time in my life I got angry with a person over a political discussion. It evolved around Al Franken, who I despise, and you know that. I've been up front about that. Nothing good about that man, in my opinion. And the woman was telling me what a great guy Franken... and I know Franken, and he's... alright. I know him, not a great guy, ok.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I got a little torqued off with her. And it was my fault. I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have. You know, I just sort of said to myself<em>, look, it's not important. I know who he is. I know what he does. Whether she knows it or not, who cares? She doesn't live in Minnesota. She can't vote for him</em>. Although I think Franken is going to run for president, so oh my God.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But anyway, that's the only time in my life.</p>
<p>My parents never argued about politics. My father voted for Nixon, my mother voted for Kennedy in 1960. They never argued, they always said, <em>oh we'll cancel each other out, ha ha ha.</em> That kind of thing. And that's the way I was brought up.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-27T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Russia, Obama, & an Interview with Glenn BeckBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Russia-Obama--an-Interview-with-Glenn-Beck/320219591480964213.html2017-06-26T23:00:00Z2017-06-26T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, June 26 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the big story is the Supreme Court and the travel ban. But because everybody's covered that ad infinitum, I want to do a story up top, and we will get to that travel thing, about President Obama and the Russian interference in the election. Because this is a big story that nobody is covering to the extent that it should be covered.</p>
<p>The liberal networks are not doing it because they adore President Obama and this makes him look bad. And the Fox News Channel isn't covering it, I don't know why. I can't tell you why.</p>
<p>Anyway, here's what happened. Back in August, the CIA told President Obama, apparently, that Russia was hacking and trying to get in, they didn't really know why. In October. The director of national intelligence became certain that Russian officials behind the explosive documents dump by WikiLeaks, this was the hacking into the DNC., Podesta, all of that, OK... remember favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders and the DNC chair, the congresswoman from Florida, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz had to resign, all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the director of national intelligence goes to President Obama and says, <em>look, Russia is trying to screw up the election, trying to get in and cause trouble.</em> October 7. President Obama said nothing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the Democratic National Committee is in disarray. Hillary Clinton's getting pounded. And President Obama says nothing. No leaks, no leaks like we have now on Trump. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So then election goes forward. And just before the election, two Democratic senators get wind that the CIA has developed information linking Russia to this. They are Dianne Feinstein and Ben Cardin. Dianne Feinstein in California, Cardin from Maryland. OK so they get wind that Russia is doing it and they write a letter to President Obama saying, <em>hey come on, what are you doing? You've got to tell us what's happening and then you've got to punish Russia.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is right before the election, like five days. Nobody knows any of that. All secret.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So a group called Operation Forty-Five gets wind that this is in the air, files a Freedom of Information Act and just over the weekend releases documents showing the letters written to President Obama, the DIA, defense/intelligence briefing him, and Obama didn't do anything.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now think about this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Think about it. President Obama's campaigning aggressively for Hillary Clinton, hammering Trump every time he turns around. Trump's bad, Trump's bad, Trump's bad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If he had put this out, President Obama, might have helped Hillary Clinton, maybe. We don't know but it certainly would have alerted all voters that this was in play, correct? He didn't put it out. Nobody knows why.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So George Will, remember ol' George, used to be on Fox News Channel, now he's on MSNBC, and I don't trust his analysis.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think he's particularly...let's just say I don't trust analysis. He goes on Meet the Press yesterday and says, <em>oh, if Barack Obama had announced that this was happening Hillary Clinton would have won the election. No question about it. She would have won, Trump would have lost.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Why didn't he then, George? Did he hate Hillary Clinton; did he want Hillary Clinton to lose?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Why?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Of course, you don't get that from the national media who didn't want to talk about the story very much anyway. They just wanted to kind of tamp it down. So very strange, is it not? Very, very strange. I'll tell you there's something more going on here. I don't know what it is, but with the Freedom of Information Act rolling out stuff and with Mueller... and you know me, I'm not some conspiratorial guy, I'm not peddling that stuff, but Mueller looking into this Russian thing...Barack Obama.</p>
<p>I'm not going to go further, but anything that happens on this story, I promise I'll report it to you. You just keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Supreme Court. They have upheld, as we predicted they would from the very first day, that the president of the United States has the power to limit immigration from any country he wants. That's written down. And these lawyers and judges who stop President Trump from keeping people out of here for only 90 days from Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Iran, Syria, and Yemen... right off the top of my head, I should have it written down, but right off the top of my head.</p>
<p>So from the very beginning we knew this was a political... these judges who were doing this... it was political. Anti-Muslim, and I mentioned this before but I'll mention it again. I love the Hawaii judge who said, <em>you know what, this ban, this is hurting tourism in Hawaii.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm thinking to myself, oh yeah, I know. Last time I was in Honolulu, and Maui, and Kauai, three of the nicest places in the world to go, I saw so many people from Yemen I couldn't tell you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I just couldn't tell you, <em>hey, you know, how are things in Yemen? It's a little discombobulated there.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Somalia...if you look at the map, both Yemen and Somalia have thousands of miles of coastline, they're on the Indian Ocean and they have very warm temperatures, warmer than Hawaii. Yet the judge in Honolulu would have us believe that people in Yemen and people in Somalia and Sudan too, they want to book tours halfway around the world so they can get a little sun and sand and ocean. They want to pay thousands of dollars in countries where the median income is like $2 a day to go.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So corrupt. That's all I can tell you.</p>
<p>So anyway, Trump's happy. He's vindicated. Supreme Court's going to hear the case in October but the case is over by then. The ban is only 90 days. Now, they could expand it. They could say, well we need another 90 days to sort all this out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You remember, basically, what this is all about is that these six countries have no vetting on their side. So you can get on a plane in Libya in Tripoli, fly to Paris, short flight, change planes, come to New York. Nobody knows who you are. There's no authorities in Libya to check on anybody. They don't coordinate with Interpol, they don't coordinate with our immigration officials. Now in France, they're supposed to, but it's easy once you don't originate in France, or Britain, or Italy, whatever, to change and go. So that's what they're doing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, the Supreme Court did the right thing. Thank you. With one exception on the law or on the ban, if you are a Somali who has relatives here in the USA you can still come. That's fine.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, healthcare. So there was a slight change today in the Senate where the senator said if you have health insurance and you don't renew your policy because you say, <em>why should I be paying these premiums now that there is a preexisting condition law, I don't need it, if I get sick I'll just buy it again,</em> you have to pay 30 percent more. We're going to talk to Glenn Beck about this in a minute. That was really the only tweak.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What does this come down to? It comes down to three senators, whether Mitch McConnell can twist their arm and say, <em>vote for this health care bill.</em> All the other stuff, Congressional Budget Office, this is going to cost more, it's going to cost less, it's all bull. Nobody knows. But I'll tell you what, if they pass it and then your premiums continue to go up, Democrats will win next time around.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So to me, if I'm sitting there, I'm looking at this 143 page bill and I'm going, you know what, Obamacare has got to go. I'll vote for this and if it doesn't work we'll revise it again. And remember, there's other things coming like competition among insurance companies across state lines, which would by theory lower prices. So I'd probably vote for it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So now my pal Glenn Beck, we have like a Lend-Lease program here. I do his for program on the radio. I think we're going to start Tuesdays and Fridays, we're going to do it this Friday, I don't know if Tuesday starts tomorrow, I don't think it does, he's on the road. But I do his program and now he's going to do the No Spin News every week.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Beck and I have known each other for a long time. He's more of a libertarian. I'm more of a traditional guy. So we don't agree on everything. So it took us a while to track Beck down.</p>
<p>Roll the tape.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> So now let's bring in our pal, Glenn Beck, who's in Los Angeles. Why, Beck? Why L.A.?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> It is as far as I can get away from you.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> That's true, in this country.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> I'm thinking about Hawaii, that it is technically, you know, further and still America. So I think I could do that. But it's as far as I could get so far.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Do you have a heavy duty business interest out there in the Southern California community?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Yeah we have a lot of meetings, we're looking at producing some things. And so we're just doing some work out here in L.A., where we have to be. It is a bizarre place.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> It is. One more question about you. Do you call people babe when you're out there at the meetings?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> No I don't and I don't do lunch. I might have lunch but I don't do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> I see. So you eat lunch, you just don't do lunch.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> I don't know how to do lunch.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Neither do I. It's so ridiculous. I'll call you, babe. I'll call you, babe. All right let's get into the news of the day here. The Senate's going to vote this week so Mitch McConnell says on the health care bill. But I want to know if you were Mitch McConnell, Beck, what&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Please don't make me be Mitch McConnell.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> What do you think is fair? Not intricacies, but just overall, what's a fair health care system?</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> A fair health care system is if we need to take care of people at the bottom end, then we look at Medicare and Medicaid and we make sure that they get the health care that they need. Then the job of the government is to get out of the way and to make business as prosperous as it can be while not screwing people. And what we have now is the federal government getting into the business of big business with the pharmaceutical companies, with the insurance companies. Everybody's getting rich, everybody getting their fair share if you're in that group and it's screwing the rest of America.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> But what about the insurance industry, let's zero in on that. So they don't want to give insurance, health insurance without a sky high premium to people who discover they have cancer and don't have any and then they sign up and say look I got cancer, now I want insurance but I didn't have it for 20 years before.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Right.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> What would you do there?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Well there's a couple of things. Let's understand insurance. The sky high premiums have gone up a hundred and forty percent when we were all told they were going to come down and we were all going to save twenty-five hundred dollars per family.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Right.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Since Obamacare has started: One hundred and forty percent. Something is very wrong here. Second of all, one of the reasons that it's gone up is because that's not insurance. That's a guaranteed payout. You know, the idea of insurance is we're all in a pool together and we hope that most of us aren't going to get cancer and then we help pay through our premiums for the people who do.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> OK so you're against the preexisting condition ban. You would say, look, you either buy insurance or you don't buy it. If you don't buy it you're on your own.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Ok, here's the thing. If you don't have insurance at this point, maybe I'm for the preexisting conditions like today. Everyone who doesn't have it, buy it. Even if you have a preexisting condition you have to buy it. And the government...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> All right so you give them a time period where they have to buy insurance and if they don't they're on their own. All right. That's interesting.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So let's talk about incivility. This is a big theme of yours, and you've been talking about witches casting spells on Donald Trump. I guess the left is after...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> You say that as if you shouldn't take the witch casting spells seriously.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Oh, me?<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Yeah. I mean, there were 2000 witches on Facebook that were casting spells last week on Donald Trump. And I don't know. You know, I don't know official rules on how to bind people. But this is a serious deal that some people... 2000 witches.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> 2000.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if the president comes out as a frog we know why that happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> No they're just binding him. I did check. He can't be turned into a newt or anything else.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> He can't be.</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> But he's bound now.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> This is ridiculous but it does go to a serious subject where, and you've been talking a lot about this on your radio program and The Blaze: The inability of people who have opposing political points of view to be civil to each other. So what's the genesis of that?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> There's a couple of things, Bill. First of all, I think it is important to...I mean I joke about the witches and I think it's ridiculous. But there is something to, you know, ancient rituals like this. Some of these people were very serious and you're messing with some dark stuff. And I know the left doesn't believe in that. But I happen to believe in good and evil. And it disturbs me that, you know, they can, that the left can so easily wrap their arms around things like witches and think it's funny when a lot of people in the country don't. And this comes from a lack of understanding of each other and being able to appreciate one another.</p>
<p>You know, the left...a great book by Jonathan Haidt talks about the language of the right and the left. And he thought, he's a professor at NYU, thought he was a big New York progressive. As it turns out, not so much, because he started to do a study about language and he had always thought that the right just didn't have a heart and didn't care. And when he started listening to people like you and me, he started hearing that some conservatives use the same language as the left and it connected and he said, <em>wait a minute, wait a minute. They do care. They're just speaking a different language.</em> For instance, with the witches, we speak the language of sanctity, that there are things that are sacred, but the right doesn't speak that. So they don't understand it. And it's like if you're going on a mission to, you know, convert people in Mexico but you don't speak Spanish. It's not going to end well for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> All right so you take good and evil seriously, and I do as well, although I don't want to be judgmental because on some things that I don't know 100 percent about because that's not fair. But you say that this underlying thing about witches is a serious thing because they're trying to harm the president of the United States.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Well, you know, I hate to take the witches more seriously than we should. I'm just using them as an example that the left will laugh this off, and some on the right will too, without recognizing that there are a good number of people in America that take this kind of stuff very seriously and we find that very, not only offensive that people would do that, we find it dark and dangerous that they would do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Yeah, that they would conjure up some evil force to put a spell of harm on some other human beings. OK. That's interesting.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Instead of being able to talk to each other with reason and both laugh about the witches, but both also say, you know, <em>we kind of feel that this should be taken, you know, more sacred</em>. They will just continue to laugh and mock us because we don't speak the same language. We have to recognize in one another...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> They don't like the spiritual aspect of a lot of traditional people's lives.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, so there is a little bit more to that Beck interview, we had to edit it down for time, so <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/PM-Exclusive:-Bill--Becks-Full-Monday-Interview/-466418207989722878.html" target="_blank">we posted the whole thing on the website, you can hear it all.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>This is a good story. Seattle passed a $15 an hour minimum wage. OK. And I'm sympathetic to that, but I wouldn't put $15 on it because that upsets business, you're almost doubling the minimum wage if you do that. But I like a stronger minimum wage, not higher, it is higher, but it's stronger, to get more people into the workplace. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they do a study at University of Washington, the Huskies. They do a study commissioned by the city of Seattle, and the study says now fewer people are working because there's layoffs and the pizza places, fast food, hamburger, joints, all these places, cut their hours. So yeah, they're paying $15 bucks an hour, but you work fewer hours and there are fewer jobs. So the net is that people at the bottom of the earning chain are earning less in Seattle, Washington.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with wanting to help the poor. But you've got to help them. Not just knee jerk stuff. It's an honest study. Now they're embarrassed in Seattle. And the businesses are saying, <em>look, we're operating in a pretty thread, a pretty tough margin here for profit. You double the minimum wage. We let people off. That's the way it is.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a very strong lesson to be learned.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, let us go to my favorite part of the No Spin News on a daily basis. If you want to reach me with an e-mail, Bill@BillOReilly.com, that's Bill@BillOReilly.com or the message boards, because if you're Premium Members you have access to that. We monitor that, take what we feel are the good messages given to me, and then we read all emails that come in, and we have a great segment every day.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. Jerry in Athens, Texas: <em>health care for people who have no insurance and are already seriously ill makes no sense. If you have no insurance on your home and it burns down can you get a collection?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a good point Jerry. It's a good point.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Amy, Escondido, California: <em>Bill, Trump promised us world class health care. So to compare the newly proposed bill that pays billions to health care companies and removes taxes for super rich to Obamacare is underestimating the intelligence of Americans. Why don't they cap malpractice&hellip;</em></p>
<p>I like that Amy. Cap malpractice adjustments as they have in other countries&hellip;. <em>to lower premiums and why pay billions to health care companies?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>They're not really paying billions to health care companies. They're allowing the health care companies to operate in the capitalistic system. Now as you just heard with Glenn Beck, I think there has to be some oversight there for gouging. All right. I think so.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joseph Ceremuga, Newcastle, Colorado: <em>Bill, I disagree with your analysis of the Democratic Party. I was raised old school in the 1950s just like you. I was taught you are judged by the company you keep and found that to be very true. Why aren't the so-called Democrats denouncing radicals and their party?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a great point. It's a great point. People like Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, radical progressives running wild, not contained. As you have noticed, I'm sure, Joseph, Nancy Pelosi has been under fire now after the Georgia thing. That may be coming, but certainly the moderate Democrats have not stepped up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Vito Vero, Scottsdale, Arizona where it's like 120. Vito, stay inside. Can you imagine people who lived there before air conditioning, Native Americans? Can you imagine people who lived in the valley the sun? Wow.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Bill, I disagree with you when you said not all Dems are Trump haters. Other than Joe Manchin of West Virginia, can you identify other Democrats who have publicly come out and supported President Trump.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>They're not going to come out publicly in support of President Trump, but there are moderate Democrats in the Senate and the House. Not on health care though. The word is out from the Democratic hierarchy, if you vote for the Trump healthcare bill, we'll isolate you. You won't get money for your re-election. The word is out.</p>
<p>Greg, Cape Coral, Florida: <em>Bill, I'm concerned about the people who don't pay attention and are inundated with propaganda on other cable networks. Also on shows like The View and Saturday Night Live. Are they not the majority of voters?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think they are. But the message does get through and people vote their pocketbooks. They vote, Greg, their self-interest. So if the economy is not going well, as it wasn't under President Obama, people are squeezed, taxes are high, they'll vote for change no matter what the far left does, as they did with President Trump.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joyce in Hemet, California: <em>another great podcast, just returned from my trip, listened to Old School, made my trip so much better. It was as good as all your other books, Bill. Loved the part about your father's gold pants and red suspenders, and the bush that you removed after spilling paint on it. Can't wait for your next book.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Joyce, we had a good time writing Old School: Life in the Sane Lane and I'm glad you enjoyed it and read it, and I hope people seek it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ann Matthews in Netawaka, Kansas<em>: just came back as a Premium Member and so glad I did.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you, Ann. Thank you for coming back.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Listened to your podcast with the Laura Ingraham, which is posted, you can hear it if you missed it. She was so right about people wanting to know what O'Reilly has to say, what's going on in the political arena. Your insight is usually right on. I can't listen to the networks; their bias is deplorable.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, well that's why we're here. And you see the upgraded video, you guys seem to like it. Any suggestions? There's a little pelican, OK? We've got to liven it up, I like this shirt. I don't know what the pelican is doing on the shirt really, it just kind of landed there. But this is why we're doing the podcast and everything. And as I said, down the road there's going to be more. And we don't exactly know what shape that's going to take. I'm enjoying a relaxing summer. But in the fall we'll have some pretty big announcements for all you guys.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Emily in Cottonwood, Arizona: <em>Bill, if I had already read Killing the Rising Sun, is it still worthwhile to read The Day the World Went Nuclear?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Day the World Went Nuclear, Amy, is the kids book off Killing the Rising Sun. If you read Killing the Rising Sun, you don't need to read The Day the World Went Nuclear. I'm killing my own product here. As I told Beck, we have too much product, but it's great for kids nine up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And if you haven't read or don't have the time to read Killing the Rising Sun, this is a shorter read and you get the highlights. But you don't need to read both books. I've got to be honest. I can't be dishonest.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I hope so. Caesar's Palace in Vegas is close to a sellout, just in case you want to go to that show on December 15th, great early Christmas gift. Gotta get those tickets. Next night, Saturday night, December 16th, we'll be in Anaheim, California the Honda Center. That's selling fast too. And in September, the 22nd, Baltimore, Royal Farms Arena. The 23rd, Saturday night, Tampa, the Amalie Arena in Tampa. Make a weekend of it. Beautiful time to go there. Extend your summer. We'll link you right over the box offices on this website.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A couple more.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Doug, Paw Paw, Michigan<em>: just finished Killing the Rising Sun. Wow that's the best book you've written so far, O'Reilly.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you, Doug. I appreciate that.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Holly has now become a Twitter rock star. It's out of control. Holly is a star. Over the weekend Holly fell in the swimming pool. I rescued her.</p>
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<p>I don't have any makeup on. Once in a while if I'm tired or something I'll slap a little something on, a little powder. But today, au natural. Thanks for being Premium Members and we will talk to you again tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-26T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Healthcare Brawl & the Hate-Trump MediaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Healthcare-Brawl--the-Hate-Trump-Media/654657997523293894.html2017-06-22T23:00:00Z2017-06-22T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Look at this, huh? Look at this.&nbsp; Welcome to the No Spin News.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We&rsquo;ve upgraded our video component, and this is just a start. I mean, we&rsquo;re going to do a lot of stuff this year to enhance our No Spin News and the people who are looking at it through the podcast enjoy it as well.</p>
<p>Somebody told me that we were the number one podcast on iTunes. That&rsquo;s like telling somebody from New Guineau how to buy cable TV. But I&rsquo;m happy that we are number one on iTunes, whatever that is. But I guess, it&rsquo;s pretty big, so a lot of people are liking what we&rsquo;re doing here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, let&rsquo;s start with the healthcare bill, 142 pages, out of the senate. I have to confess, this is not my area of expertise. When I was doing the TV show, there was a guy named Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel&rsquo;s brother, and he was one of the architects of Obamacare. He worked fro President Obama.&nbsp;</p>
<p>FOX hired him to explain Obamacare. I never put him on the air, even though he was a pretty good guest, because I couldn&rsquo;t understand a word he said. So I couldn&rsquo;t debate him, I couldn&rsquo;t challenge him, because he just pulled all this stuff out of the air and he&rsquo;s a doctor.</p>
<p>And I&rsquo;m sitting there going, <em>how could anybody know what this whole thing is?</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>But I will give you some important facts right now on your healthcare. This affects you. Number one, 85% of the American public want some change to Obamacare or to abolish it. That&rsquo;s overwhelming. It hasn&rsquo;t worked. There&rsquo;s no debate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Chucky Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, they can go up there and blow smoke all day long, 85% of Americans say <em>you know what, it&rsquo;s not working. It&rsquo;s not working.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Now, the Republicans and the Democrats are basically never going to agree on healthcare because the Democratic Party wants free healthcare to poor people and people earning under $60,000. That&rsquo;s just an arbitrary figure&hellip;they want it free. They want an entitlement. And many poor people do get healthcare free through Medicaid through their states.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Medicare is national health insurance, Medicaid is state.</p>
<p>So this is what the debate is all about. Right now, the Medicaid payments, and that money comes from the feds, from us, from the taxpayers, unlimited. It&rsquo;s unlimited under Obamacare to give poor people healthcare.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Republican Party says <em>no, we&rsquo;ve got to have limits on it and the states have to impose those limits. So we&rsquo;ll still pay Delaware and Idaho and Nebraska, but you have to handle the money we give you. It&rsquo;s not going to be just unlimited money.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s the main point of contention. Democrats don&rsquo;t want that, they want unlimited Medicaid payments, Republicans do. That&rsquo;s what there is to understand.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, the senate bill has pre-existing conditions, insurance companies can&rsquo;t punish you for that or raise your premium. It&rsquo;s not fair because you could then not buy health insurance because you don&rsquo;t have to anymore, that mandate is out. And then if you get sick, then you buy it. That&rsquo;s not really fair to the other people who buy it when they&rsquo;re not sick and pay a premium rate. You pay the same rate and you wait around and the insurance companies don&rsquo;t get that money. So you don&rsquo;t get your premiums until you get sick. See, there&rsquo;s got to be some kind of gizmo there to have an elevated status. There has to be. It&rsquo;s not fair.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s going to be a big brawl, because the House, the House of Representatives, in their bill they said that insurance companies could raise for pre-existing. The senate says no.</p>
<p>Now, there&rsquo;s a whole bunch of other stuff in there. It&rsquo;s numbing. You need a PhD. Is it going to pass? I don&rsquo;t know.</p>
<p>Guys like Rand Paul, the senator from Kentucky; he&rsquo;s got his own vision. I don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re going to be able to reconcile this bill.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s going to pass next week. That&rsquo;s what Mitch McConnell wants. I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s going to happen. Then they go on vacation and all of that. So I&rsquo;m not that optimistic about this. The Republican Party has a lot riding on it. If they fail to get any reform of Obamacare, voters are going to remember that. They&rsquo;ll remember it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, President Trump announced today there are no tapes of Comey. He kills me. So Trump says there might be tapes about what, a month ago, a month and a half ago, about his conversations with the former FBI director. He says it to create doubt in Comey&rsquo;s mind.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Comey&rsquo;s going <em>what did I say? If I testify under oath one thing and he&rsquo;s got a tape, I could be charged with perjury.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Trump&rsquo;s just messing with him. He&rsquo;s just messing with him. I knew it but I couldn&rsquo;t say it because it was speculation on my part, but I know Trump. I know he does stuff like that, and after the Nixon debacle, anybody taping stuff in the Oval Office&hellip;that&rsquo;s not good. That&rsquo;s not what you want to do.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s interesting because Trump has an opportunity here with the healthcare thing. I mean, if he can get it through, that would be big. But even without that, the Russia thing is dying. The ratings for the Trump haters on cable TV are going down. The story is dead, nothing new. Investigation, so what? Not going anywhere right now. So the president should seize that and not light it up again.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I was thinking last night, look, it&rsquo;s very similar, what we&rsquo;re seeing now, to what Hillary Clinton went through. Hillary Clinton had emailGate, had Benghazi, and had her Clinton Foundation. None of the three of them were really investigated the way they should have been because Barack Obama was the president, and he made damn well sure these investigations really didn&rsquo;t go the way they should have gone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you had Hillary Clinton constantly being battered by people who didn&rsquo;t like her about these three. It&rsquo;s all legit. Absolutely legit. I mean, email, the woman says <em>I&rsquo;m going to do my private server and put national security at risk while I&rsquo;m Secretary of State. </em>That&rsquo;s big. She made that decision, that&rsquo;s on her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Benghazi, she didn&rsquo;t pay attention to it. I&rsquo;ll launch the investigation and I&rsquo;ll wrap it right up for you. She didn&rsquo;t pay attention. The ambassador over there who was asking for protection, for her and her minions it didn&rsquo;t matter. They didn&rsquo;t really care and then bang it blows up. And then she runs to cover her butt.</p>
<p>And the Clinton Foundation, which is the biggest story, in my opinion&hellip;Benghazi is a big story, but not paying attention, what are you going to do? The Clinton Foundation, there&rsquo;s a lot of bad stuff there. A lot of bad stuff, and I said this from the beginning. The Clintons used that multi, multi, multi million dollar fund to zip around the world in private jets, to live large, to make deals, political deals, economic deals, you name it. They used it, they used the charitable fund to do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yeah, they kicked some money over to some causes, but that&rsquo;s not what it was about. So that Clinton Foundation, boy, if somebody got into that fabric&hellip;they&rsquo;re probably smart enough not to disobey the laws on charity. I have my own foundation, and the New York Times investigated it and came up with nothing because every blanking cent that we get from my foundation goes to charity, with the exception of the accountants, who have to be paid. Because we have to file with the IRS, and the accountants have to keep track of the money and where it goes. I say <em>give this to this, </em>they have to cut the checks. All of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But we are as clean as you could possibly be. I didn&rsquo;t use that charity for anything. I don&rsquo;t even have a checkbook on the charity. I have no expenses on the charity. And I wouldn&rsquo;t take a nickel from that charitable money.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, so that&rsquo;s Clinton, Hillary Clinton.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Donald Trump, they&rsquo;re trying to make him out to be Hillary Clinton, but what&rsquo;s lacking is any facts. We have facts on Benghazi, on the emails, and on the foundation, the Clinton Foundation. There are facts, in stone facts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the Trump/Russia collusion, there&rsquo;s no facts. Nothing. It doesn&rsquo;t exist. That&rsquo;s the difference. Now maybe there will be facts, maybe that will happen someday, but right now, nothing. That&rsquo;s the difference. There&rsquo;s nothing for me to talk about on that front. Produce something and I&rsquo;ll talk about it. But that doesn&rsquo;t stop the Trump haters in the newspapers, you all know the papers that do it, and on MSNBC and CNN.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Sean Hannity is taking on the television people. Usually, in the past, this is breaking down now as cable becomes balkanized. You know, people are in and out, some days they get decent ratings, some days they don&rsquo;t. It&rsquo;s a whole different world than it was just four or five months ago.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Hannity basically is saying <em>ok, I&rsquo;m going to call out Rachel Maddow. </em>She&rsquo;s the big conspiratorialist on MSNBC, and her ratings have gone up because she weaves these tales of Donald Trump is the devil and all this stuff. And every day it&rsquo;s something else. She doesn&rsquo;t have any evidence. She just weaves it. Whatever comes into her mind, she has her writers put it up there and this one&rsquo;s doing this, this one&rsquo;s doing that. Alright, I never in a million years would watch that. I wouldn&rsquo;t watch it for Hillary Clinton. I wouldn&rsquo;t watch it for anybody.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Unless you have a fact, don&rsquo;t waste my time with maybe, could have&hellip;.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Hannity is calling out Maddow in a pretty direct way, let&rsquo;s roll that tape.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Hannity: </strong><em>So in the destroy Trump media, what you just saw somehow passes for &ldquo;news.&rdquo; So I have to ask, hey Tom Brokaw, are you proud of NBC News now? I knew the late Tim Russert, he never behaved, he never reported things like this.</em></p>
<p><em>For example, my former colleague, Megyn Kelly, moved over to NBC. Is she proud of this type of reporting? Megyn interviewed, for example, it was a bid deal, it made a lot of news, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones last week. Should she now interview Maddow this week so she can be fair and balanced?</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>What about Matt Lauer? Does he support this nonsense, these conspiracy theories that are being spewed?</em></p>
<p><em>By the way, how about Andy Lack, he&rsquo;s the head of NBC. Is he ok with all this?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So right before that sound bite, Hannity did excoriate Rachel Maddow by name. And then he went down on all the people at NBS who he wants to react to it. So make no mistake, Sean Hannity is going after Rachel Maddow.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the CNN front, it was Newt Gingrich telling President Trump, apparently, not to allow CNN into the White House briefings. The former Speaker of the House talked to Martha MacCallum about CNN:&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Martha:</strong> <em>You said you think the president should cancel relations with CNN and exclude them from the briefing room? Really?</em></p>
<p><strong>Newt:</strong> <em>Look, when Harvard reports that a network is 93 percent negative, they&rsquo;re not a news network, they&rsquo;re an attack network. Why play with them as though they were serious? These people find excuses, they have talking points to attack Donald Trump all day, every day.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Macron, the new president of France, just kicked two networks out because he said they were propaganda networks. Well, I regard CNN as a propaganda network.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Martha:</strong> <em>Well, the prior administration suggested the same thing about Fox News and the other news organizations stuck up for us, so do you think that&rsquo;s fair play?</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><strong>Newt:</strong> <em>I don&rsquo;t think Fox News was ever anywhere close to 93 percent negative. I actually think you were remarkable fair and balanced, and I think that that&rsquo;s the difference. Explain to me why if you&rsquo;re looking at a reporter who you know nine times out of ten is going to be negative, why would you allow them to ask a question? What good does it possibly serve the president?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So you have pretty strong evidence that CNN is a hate-Trump network and will never give him a break or the benefit of the doubt. You have overwhelming evidence that MSNBC is in business to drive the president from office. That&rsquo;s what they are there to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if you&rsquo;re the president, you&rsquo;re saying <em>ok, look, I&rsquo;m not going to get a fair shake, not even close, from these two&hellip;</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, I&rsquo;m thinking about it, I probably would allow them to be in the White House briefings, but I tell my guy <em>don&rsquo;t call on them until they end or just ignore them, they&rsquo;re way down the food chain.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And they have the right to do that. The White House has the right to do it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a bad situation. I think you and all other Americans, even the people who watch this stuff, I think you know what&rsquo;s happening. So how much does it affect Donald Trump? Eh, it&rsquo;s the people who don&rsquo;t really pay attention to politics, I guess, that gets through to them on some level. But people who do, know what&rsquo;s going on.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-22T23:00:00ZO'Reilly Talks Media & the Culture War with Bernie GoldbergBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-Talks-Media--the-Culture-War-with-Bernie-Goldberg/-766830447579659562.html2017-06-21T23:00:00Z2017-06-21T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, the 21st of June 2017.</p>
<p>This will be the last day of audio only. We'll be back to our video component tomorrow, the 22nd of June. And we appreciate your indulgence on this. As I mentioned, we're upgrading our little camera situation so we get a little movement and you know, just make it a little bit better. This is not the big thing that we are contemplating, which will be a surprise and a big video deal. So I'm not going to say any more about it because I do want you to be surprised when we get it up and running.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Also we got some very good news this morning, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html" target="_blank">Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War</a>, number five on the bestseller list, without the Legends &amp; Lies program or my daily presence on television, that's just extraordinary. An extraordinary showing, and I congratulate David Fisher, who wrote the book, and of course I wrote the introduction and supervised the book, edited the book. It's fabulous.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you're into the Civil War, Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War is so readable, it's easy to read. Kids can read it; you can read it. Great art in the book. I just can't recommend it highly enough. All right, so that's good news.</p>
<p>Now let's begin our analysis here with the Georgia House race. Republican Karen Handel defeated a Democrat, John Ossoff. And the slogan that he had was "I'm going to work my Ossoff." Very very clever. But Handel won handily, 3.8 percent. That was more than Donald Trump won that Georgia 6th Congressional District. He won by 1.5 percent. And all the Democrats on television were down cast because they were looking for Ossoff to win. Some were saying that Trump was losing his mojo.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I couldn't care less about all this. I don't know Ms. Handel; I wish her well. I hope she does a good job for the country. It's just so obnoxious though that the press sets up this stuff and then, you know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway the Trump administration is saying there have been five congressional elections, special elections since the president was elected and Republicans have won all five. I don't know, I didn't check that out, but it sounds like it's accurate.</p>
<p>On the radio, Rush Limbaugh made a pretty provocative statement. He says the Democratic Party has become the largest hate group in the country. And the combination of negative emotions that the Democratic Party puts out qualifies it as a hate group.</p>
<p>I think that there is an element of the party that is hateful. There's no doubt about it. That's the far left progressives. I think Hillary Clinton is in that category. But other Democrats aren't. Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia. You know, I don't think Claire McCaskill is a hater, she's a senator from Missouri.</p>
<p>You know, I mean, but certainly Nancy Pelosi is. Schumer, you know, he tries to doctor it, but he is. They're going to object to anything.</p>
<p>I mean, look, the health care bill comes up tomorrow. No matter what's in the health care bill, no matter what is there the Democrats are not going to support it. They're not going to like it no matter what. It doesn't matter. Now you could say that's hate. I'm not going to argue with that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think I'd brand the whole Democratic Party hateful, but certainly the elements that are visible, that have the most exposure are, and that's why Mr. Limbaugh has taken that tact.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Basically in this country there is a cultural civil war, there's no doubt about it. And that's why, you know, the real civil war, Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War is interesting to know about because you see by reading the book how Americans pitted themselves against each other in a violent way. Here, it's kind of violent, verbally, rhetorically. Not yet guns, but that shooting in Washington last week, Steve Scalise and the other four, certainly part of the culture war.</p>
<p>And we're pleased to report that Congressman Scalise has now been upgraded to fair condition and he's going to make it. What an ordeal though, his whole life is changed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As far as hate groups are concerned, I think the media is now past the political parties in the hatred realm. And it's a rapidly changing media landscape. So I wanted to talk about it with our pal Bernie Goldberg, who's our media guy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Bernie and I have been around forever and we know all the players and I spoke with him earlier today.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> So let's bring in Bernie Goldberg, our pal. He's in North Carolina working hard as always. You know, Scott Pelley is interesting, he anchored the CBS Evening News for six years, and you were with CBS, I think for what, 87 years, weren't you there...Did you start...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Ninety-three years.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Right. And he leaves, and Pelley's a professional, obviously, he covered stories all over the world, and nobody...it didn't make any wave at all. Nothing. Were you surprised?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> It's interesting isn't it?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Yeah.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> I was there the day, the day, that Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time. Everybody of a certain age remembers. That was a big deal. That was a very big deal. And when Dan Rather left ignominiously, and by the way, I never believed it was because of RatherGate. I think it was because he was number three in a three-man race. But whatever the reason, that was big news. I don't think, and this is no reflection on Scott Pelley the journalist, but I don't think people could put him out of a lineup. You know, and in a bigger sense, the role of the anchor on a network evening newscast, and this is the suggestion of your question, is just not important anymore. Certainly not as important as it used to be. That's for sure.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Why though? Why? Is it a declining interest in the nightly news?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Because the media have been balkanized in a way that has changed the entire landscape. When I was growing up, you want to take a cheap shot now, Bill and say it was in the 1700s?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> I'm just glad you survived the Indian attacks.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> When I was growing up there were two places, two places to get your television news. NBC and CBS, and ABC didn't exist yet. After a while, ABC came along and there were three places to get it. If you weren't at your TV at 6:30 at night or seven o'clock in some places, tough on you, you weren't getting the news. They didn't care. Now you can get your news 24 hours a day in a million different places including places that just a few years ago didn't even exist, you know, relatively few years ago the internet. So because of the Balkanization, no one place is as important as it used to be. Walter Cronkite was voted the most trusted man in America. OK. It would be laughable to think that Scott Pelley or Lester Holt or David Muir.... It's just, I can't even finish the sentence.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> It wouldn't register.</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> It would be crazy to think that they could finish in the top... I would venture to say that if you went down a street in middle America, on Main Street, and ask for the names of the three evening news anchors, almost everybody couldn't tell you the name of all three.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> No. I agree. So the...And then if you look at the ratings for the nightly newscasts, they're going down pretty fast. The morning shows, they do a little bit of news, but they're mostly personality driven. CBS, I think, does the most. And then the cable news during the day, they do news but at night it's mostly opinion. So, people always ask me "where do you get your news, O'Reilly?" And then I tell them various places, not many anymore, because it's not trustworthy. But where does Goldberg, where do you get your news? Where do you go?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Well, once upon a time...I know you were asking in the present tense, but a little context. Once upon a time I would get it from the CBS Evening News at night. That's where I'd get it. And I trusted it. And that was that. Now I've learned, because that's a question I'm asked also a lot, where should I go to get the news that's honest and straightforward? I don't think you can go to one place anymore. Now I realize that people listening to us, Bill, have jobs and they can't sit around and watch 20 different TV channels or read 75 newspapers. I understand that. But I would say, don't go to any one place because, especially on television, the news is... television, cable especially, is a business model. They're not broadcasting, they're narrow casting. They're giving people what they want on that channel. So if you go to...let's just go with A, B, and C. If you go to A, you know what you're getting and they're programming for you. If you going to B, you know what you're getting there which is different from A. And if you go to C, it may be different from A, but it's the same as B, because two of the three of the same basically. And one is different.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Right.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> So people are going, Bill, I think, to where they, you know...they're not going to learn as much as they're going to get their opinions and their values and their biases validated.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Reinforced. So it's very difficult for the American citizen to know what the truth is. And it's going to get worse, in my opinion. Absolutely. There are very few...&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> We shouldn't let the viewer off too easily on this, because the viewer...you and I know what the truth is. The truth, in terms of news, are the sun rises in the east. That's the truth. There's no disputing that. But when it comes to politics, the viewer thinks the truth is mainly whatever he or she agrees with. Now that's a general statement, not everybody, but too many people. So if you like Donald Trump, the truth is one thing, and if you don't like Donald Trump, the truth is something else.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> But here's the difference. The Constitution gave us special privileges with one mandate: seek the truth so you can tell the folks who's doing what in the power precincts. So Franklin, and Jefferson, and Madison, and John Adams, they all wanted protection for the American people. They wanted them to know who was doing what because those people can hurt them. They have power over them. So they said, Ok, press, you can have special privileges to write what you want, say what you want, freedom of the press, all of that. But now, I don't know if this is an accurate statement, because it's just my opinion, but I would say 80 percent of the national media couldn't care less about seeking the truth. They're giving what the editor wants or the producer wants. The tone is what the network wants or the newspaper wants. If you're a pro-Trump conservative at the New York Times you're not going to prosper there. You're not.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> That's correct.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> The culture is so that you have to conform. So that all of that seeking the truth business is out the window as far as the media is concerned. But the American people do not have a mandate to seek the truth. They can do whatever they want to do with information. So that's why I hold the media at a higher, much higher level than regular folks.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> That's fair. That's that's fair enough, and I agree largely with your analysis. Now the other side of that is the New York Times would say, no, no we care about the truth. We want the facts. But there's the truth and there's the truth. You can get the facts right, but if you emphasize certain things...let's say every day you emphasize the negative on your news pages about somebody you don't like, well is that the whole truth? What about the good things that the person does?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Right, there's no bounds. I'm going to challenge you there. I mean, when Comey out and says a very important article that The New York Times printed was totally false, and then the New York Times, you know what the reply was? Do you remember what the reply to that was?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> What they said was, <em>we don't know what he's talking about. And if he tells us what he's talking about, we'll look into it. Until then, we stand by our story.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> No, what they said initially was <em>we can't find our source to find out.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Oh yeah, yeah that's another thing.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> <em>We can't find our source.</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> I think it was sources, I think it was plural, actually.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And then we never heard another word about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> When I heard that I said, what do you mean, these guys have gone to ground. They're not answering phone calls anymore.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> We haven't heard a word since Comey made that statement. You would think that the New York Times would do a follow up on it, <em>oh no, the story was right, and here's why...</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Right, and that's where you're correct, Bill, when you talk about the truth. The truth is two and two is four. That's the truth. But when you get into politics, even when you tell the truth about something, if you let it go after 10 minutes, if you put in... type the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki about somebody you don't like and put stories when they do something good on page, you know, B75. Is that really the truth? I don't think so. So the truth is a little more subtle than simply getting the facts right. You know what, here's the way I want to put it. Here's where I want to put it. Journalists have an obligation not only to get the facts right but to be fair. That's an important point, to be fair as well as getting the facts right.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> So how many of them do that...</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> And even when you get the facts right, you're not automatically fair.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And even the commentators have that, should have that, you've got to be fair even if you're point of view is conservative, you can't be unfair when analyzing the news. So that's why I have you on, Goldberg, because I think you're a fair guy and we always have a good roundabout discussion on the media, and very few people... because most people are afraid of the media. Because the media does attack. That's for sure.</p>
<p>So Bernie Goldberg, go to <a href="http://bernardgoldberg.com/" target="_blank">BernardGoldberg.co</a>m. Any parting words on the podcast?</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Podcast, it's always enjoyable. A very interesting source of information. And when you go to <a href="http://bernardgoldberg.com/" target="_blank">BernardGoldberg.com</a>, thank you, Bill, sign up for my free newsletter so you know when my columns are coming out, and you could be entertained and informed. And I'm saying that with tongue and cheek. But seriously sign up for the.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And it's free, right?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Absolutely free. Not just free, absolutely free.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Thanks for helping us out, Bernie, you're a champ and we really appreciate it.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie:</strong> Thanks, Bill, always a pleasure talking to you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Once again, we really appreciate all our contributors. It's a lot different being on TV than it is in a podcast, and you know, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Left-Wing-Press--an-Interview-with-Laura-Ingraham/654624386526897111.html" target="_blank">we had Laura Ingraham yesterday, that chat is posted on BillOReilly.com.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>I think we're going to have Glenn Beck coming up on Monday. You know, these are very busy people and it's very kind of them to take the time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Couple of terror issues. Michigan, at the Flint airport. Security officer was stabbed. It looks like it's terrorism. The guy, and NBC is reporting he's Canadian born, yells Allah Akbar, God is great. And when he stabs the officer in the neck and a couple of other places...the officer is expected to survive. Terrible.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know this is the wave of the future, these lone nuts going in and you know, hurting people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In Brussels, a frightening story. I mean, the guy comes into the Belgian, Brussels train station and he's got a nail packed bomb in a bag. So tries to detonate it but it doesn't really blow up. And you know, he then attacks a guy, screaming Allah Akbar, same thing. He tries to attack a soldier who's standing in a Brussels station security, and you know, they shoot him dead.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, did they shoot him dead? He's the 36-year-old Moroccan national who lived in Brussels. Obviously, a fanatical Islamist. No, I think they captured him rather than shooting him dead.</p>
<p>But you know, again, we're going to see copycat stuff in America of this ilk, and in Europe it's like every hour on the hour now, right?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tomorrow there will be an unveiling of the new health care law, the Republican version in the Senate. As I mentioned, the Democrats are not going to support it no matter what's in it. Some Republicans are mad that the nuts and bolts of the bill were not put out for wider debate. I don't know, I'm not there. I'll look at it tomorrow what they come up with and we'll analyze it in detail whether it helps your life or not. That's my bottom line. Whether it helps your life or not.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's the news analysis portion. Let's get into the mail. We have lots of good letters as usual.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lynne on the message board in Capac, Michigan: <em>I agree Laura Ingraham is a sane voice in a world of hyperbole. Trump might benefit from her experience, however the liberal media would come at her if she were the White House spokesperson with daggers drawn. It was a good interview, Bill. From both of you. Hope to see more of her on your new platform.</em></p>
<p>OK. So we did interview Miss Laura yesterday. It is posted. Sure, if she were the White House spokesperson she'd be lampooned and attacked. I mean, that comes with the job.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Angelo, Boca Raton, Florida: <em>Bill, I usually see eye to eye with your thoughts. But I think you're missing the threat of Robert Mueller's position. He's been given a job without a target completion date or any supervision. If he didn't bring forth a single fact or say another word, but just remain mysteriously behind the curtain, he'd still cripple this presidency beyond redemption. Pray to God he's an honest man who seeks to end this nonsense quickly.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>See, I disagree with that. I mean, I don't think he's crippling the Trump administration, and whatever he comes up with is going to have to be factual. It's going to have to have evidence. So it's a better system, even if you don't like Mueller and you don't think he's a fair man. I don't know. OK, I don't know. But whatever his conclusions are, the folks are going to...you're going to have to see, Angelo, the facts. He's got to lay it right out there for you. I'm not that worried about this. I'm really not.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mark Ryan, Hyannis, Massachusetts: <em>Bill, I've heard your assessment of Robert Mueller and how you believe he'll conduct himself during the investigation. However, Newt Gingrich offers a compelling argument as to why Mueller might be out to get Trump. What do you think of Newt's views?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, the speaker is a very, very smart guy. He's basing his opinion on speculation that because Mueller was friends with Comey, or they had a relationship of some kind at the FBI, that he might be soft on Comey. It's all speculation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again, I go back to the one in stone thing that we know, whatever Mueller comes up with, he's going to have to prove so that everybody sees it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Francesco in Huntington, New York on Long Island: <em>Handel defeated Ossoff in spite of being outspent by 5. The GOP has won every special election since the new administration is in place. I think a lot more people are pro-Trump than the polls show.</em></p>
<p>I think that there is a backlash that President Trump is gaining support because of the media hatred. I think you're right there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Virginia Sullivan, Irvine, California: <em>Bill, reading The Hill article that you wrote about the Alex Jones interview with Megyn Kelly, it made me realize how much I miss you and your insightful commentary. Very glad you're planning to start your own operation. You are the best, Bill O'Reilly.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Well that's nice, Virginia. I liked the column. If you didn't read it, we posted it on BillOReilly.com about the Jones/Kelly interview.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Justin Hatfield in Elizabeth City, North Carolina: <em>Good morning from the 5th Fleet. I'm currently deployed onboard the USS Carter Hall. Been a dedicated factor follower all of my adult life. I was very disappointed when The factor stopped on TV. I was deployed at the time. Thank you for years of entertainment speaking the truth even when unpopular to do so. Will you be on another network anytime soon?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm not sure, Justin. I'm taking my time because of all the changes in the media. I don't know what we're really going to do yet other than expand BillOReilly.com and the podcast here. The No Spin News is going to expand in a fairly big way, we're hiring people now. But we'll see. We'll see what the best vehicle is. I got a little tired of being attacked, and once I didn't have a strong support system, easy to pick me off. And that's, you know, we can't have that again.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Dawn, I'm glad you brought that up. Premium Members get big discounts on our stuff. And it's quality, and we're glad that your husband liked it. It's an easy shop for Factor fans or O'Reilly fans, so thanks for pointing it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anthony Esposito is in Austin, Texas: <em>Bill, born and raised in Brooklyn, just reading Old School, brought back so many memories. Been listening to you online, you're doing a great job. And I agree, more people are moving to this type of information medium over TV. Television is overdone like a bad steak.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm not sure. The cable news networks are doing ok because Donald Trump drives that coverage. But I do believe that people are gravitating toward more personal forms of communication. But we will see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sherry Hurley in Medina, Ohio: <em>Bill, my grandson, 10 years old, going into fifth grade, is the book The Day the Word Nuclear ok for him?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yes. That's why we wrote the book, Sherry. It's off Killing the Rising Sun, which is approaching 2 million in sales for adults. So we always do the kids book. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/48389.html" target="_blank">The Day the World Went Nuclear</a>, Dropping the Atom bombs is the subtitle, perfect for your son. Perfect. He'll be engaged. He'll understand. And kids need to know the dangers in this world. And we don't frighten them so much as inform them.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Wow. That's excellent. What a nice wife and daughter you are, Marjorie. So you come down from Indiana, staying in Clearwater, Florida in September to see Miller and I. Miller and me. At the Amalie Arena in Tampa on September 23rd, Saturday night.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The day before, we'll be at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. And then, December 15th, great early Christmas gift, Caesar's Palace in Vegas. Saturday, December 16th, Anaheim, California at the Honda Center.</p>
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<p>Lawrence Peters, Gurnee, Illinois: <em>just purchased Old School. It's great and truly funny. The principals resonate perfectly with me and your cohort Feirstein are terrific writers.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>You know, Bruce Feirstein did a great job on the book. He's an L.A. based guy, and you get two old school views, one from the East Coast, one from the West Coast.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And finally Jim Humphrey is in Henrietta, Texas: <em>Hello, Bill. I just received my copy of Old School: Life in the Sane Lane for Father's Day autographed. This is my first book by you. My question: is the signature yours or by auto pen? Not complaining, just honestly would like to know.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I sign every book that we sell. Every book. Early on they said, well you can do auto pen. And I said no.&nbsp;</p>
<p>No, if you're going to pay good money for a signed book you need to get a signed book. It's my signature and my sentiment because I personalized a lot of the books for you. But it's a good legitimate question. And when you buy anything from BillOReilly.com, you're going to get your money's worth. And I would never ever use an auto pen ever. And sometimes, you know, around Christmas and things like that, my hand is falling off. But it's worth it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thanks for being Premium Members and we will talk to you again on video tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-21T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Left-Wing Press & an Interview with Laura IngrahamBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Left-Wing-Press--an-Interview-with-Laura-Ingraham/654624386526897111.html2017-06-20T23:00:00Z2017-06-20T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for the 20th of June already, 2017.</p>
<p>We are on audio again today because, as I explained yesterday, we are putting in a different camera/video system, which we'll have up and running on Thursday. So I zipped out here to Montauk, one of most beautiful places on Earth, and recording this No Spin News for you just on audio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have Laura Ingraham on the program today. She is reported to be in the running to be the White House spokesperson to represent Mr. Trump. We'll get to the bottom of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I always like talking to Laura, she's a very good person and runs a very successful enterprise.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let's get to the news.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, President Trump has not been provocative for a few days, which is a good thing, I think, for the nation.</p>
<p>However, the left wing press continues to search for things to hammer him with. And there is a special congressional election in Georgia today featuring a Democrat, John Ossoff, against Republican Karen Handel. So the Washington Post and other anti-Trump organs are billing this as like <em>oh if Handel loses and the Democrat gets in, it's a big loss for Trump</em>... on and on. You know the deal. And the president has tweeted in favor of Ms. Handel.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But here's the real story, and this is a Daily Caller exposition. I have to congratulate on this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ossoff has raised nine times as much money in California than he has in Georgia. This is the most expensive house race ever. And the Democrat, Ossoff, has more than 7000 donations from California, according to the Mercury News out there. It's amazing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's amazing how much money is coming from the progressive precincts of California into Georgia. And you know what this is all about. Everybody knows what this is all about. So we'll report tomorrow what happens there. But it's a money play.</p>
<p>Georgia is changing, it's not as conservative as it used to be. And this is a suburb of Atlanta, this district. And it is, as I said, the most expensive house race in history. Ossoff has 15 million dollars at his disposal. Right now he has raised altogether 23 million. That's amazing. Handel, the Republican, has raised about 4.2 million.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is a poll out, the CBS poll, it says his tone and civility declining, the same are getting better. Yeah.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And this is all about politics. Seven percent of Americans say the political debate in the country is getting better. Sixty eight percent getting worse, 24 percent say it's the same. Now anybody knows it's getting worse. Come on. It's just crazy. There is no civility in this country and that is directly at the feet of the internet. I mean, it is brutal. Brutal.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you go into political websites and you look at the comments, even some of the websites themselves. I try to stay away from that because my job is to get you news that's true, facts that are true, and you simply can't do it in that arena.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And that brings us to how President Trump is presenting himself to the nation. So he's most effective when he goes out and he gives speeches because, you know, he's good at that and he feels comfortable with his followers around him. But he can't do that every day. He can't even do it every week.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he has to have a spokesperson. So right now Sean Spicer is the face of it and that's not really going too well. So it looks like Spicer's going to get moved to another job and they're looking for a new White House spokesperson. One name that has been bantered around, very high profile, is Laura Ingraham. Ms. Ingraham is a lawyer, clerk for Clarence Thomas, knows Congress in and out, knows Washington, lived there for many years, obviously outspoken, very tough.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, to me that would be a fascinating choice. So Ms. Laura was kind enough to talk to us earlier today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>[4:53]&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, Laura Ingraham in the news because there are rumors that she is being considered to be the White House spokesperson. So we have her here.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Did they talk to you about the job yet, Laura?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Well I haven't had any formal interviews. I think I think my name tends to pop off every time people start talking about reorganizing communications for whatever reason, but I haven't had any formal interviews with anybody about that. And I never really saw myself as a press secretary, that's not...to me that's not really probably the best piece of what I would do. I mean, if I ever went to the government it would be I think more maybe communications and heading up communications strategy and more policy communications with like the occasional jousting with the press but... maybe the 10 years.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> You want to be a decision maker.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura</strong>: Yeah.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> But with the Trump situation it becomes almost crisis management or has become almost crisis management now. So I wasn't surprised that they might be looking at you, but I just want to go on the record. Nobody from the Trump campaign has said come on in we want to talk to you about the job?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> No, I said I haven't had a formal interview.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Ah, so that means informally they might have called you up?</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> We're always...we always talk and you know these guys are people I've known for you know, I've known them for almost as long as I've known you, for like two decades. So they're always picking my brain and I'm, you know, I always offer unsolicited advice.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> I understand. A lot of politicians call me all the ti me. And I tell the audience that if somebody asked me for my opinion and I feel that that's being done sincerely I'll give it to him. I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat or whatever and I talk to a bunch of people.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Alright, so we're going to say that you're not going to do it for now. You know, if that changes please let us know. But let's talk about the job itself, because you have a hostile press in the White House, right? Would you say 90 percent are hostile toward Trump?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Yeah, I think it's fair to say, Bill, that at least nine out of 10 reporters you know committed Democrat, and you know, it's fine. Democrats in the past have done reporting and have been pretty even handed. And so I don't think that discounts someone from being necessarily a little bit more objective. But what I kind of see as having happened is that it's more of a hit squad that we see on a daily basis. Everyone's trying to outdo the other for the television cameras versus do the kind of reporting on the substantive issues that drove the electorate. The electorate didn't go out and vote because of our relationship with Russia. They went out and voted because they wanted Washington fundamentally changed. And I think there are things that are being done slowly, too slowly for my taste, that are actually very helpful in that regard. And they're not really interested in advancing that conversation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It really is just the gotcha, the gotcha moments, which is fine. I mean every now and then.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> But that that's what their bosses want. The New York Times, Washington Post, they don't want objective reporting, they want make them look like a fool because we don't believe that he should be in there in the first place. So that's the agenda. So if you, and this is a hypothetical but I think it's one that has value, if you're in there and you know that and you know that the questions are loaded, they're not looking for the truth, they're certainly not looking at the truth, they're looking to make President Trump and by extension anybody representing him to look bad. So what do you do? Do you call that out every time it happens or do you try to answer the question in some kind of context?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Yeah, I think you can do a little bit of both. I mean, I think there are probably ways of dealing with the hungry press that might be a little bit more disarming than coming at them, you know, coming at the jugular. I mean, there's only so much you're going to get accomplished doing that. And I think it's better to maybe give the few journalists who are doing a good job, a strong performance, give them their props when they do really powerful reporting, even maybe sometimes when they call us out on something.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> Yeah, be complimentary to some of them. But the problem that Sean Spicer, and to some extent, Governor Huckabee's daughter are having is that sometimes Donald Trump, the president, issues contradictory statements and sometimes he says something on Twitter that's provocative. And then you know, you're right away up against, you've got 15 questions coming in and you have to make your boss look good. And sometimes it's very hard.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> It is. It's a difficult position to be put in. And I think again that's where I think it would be helpful to have somebody in the communications department who perhaps he's known a little bit longer and can relate a little bit more to their own work experience. I think Sean is actually under really difficult circumstances. I actually think he's done a really good job. I mean, they have their moments, they got him, and they ridicule him on Saturday Night Live. Big deal. They do that all the time. I don't think that means anything. But I think he's under very difficult circumstances. I think he's given as good as he's gotten. And I actually think he's done a pretty good job. If I had to grade him, I'd grade him a solid B under these circumstances. It's hard. It's really, really difficult.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> The problem with Mr. Spicer though is that he hasn't broken through to the American people. And, you know, Tony Snow, who I thought was excellent at his job when he was defending Bush the younger, he had charisma, he was larger than life, he looked like he was in command. Spicer doesn't really look like he's in command out there. You would. See, I'm giving Ms. Ingraham a compliment here. If I were Trump and I said, look I need somebody authoritative at that podium because they're trying to position me as an incompetent who doesn't know what he's doing. I need somebody out there to really set them straight so I need somebody as strong as Laura Ingraham or anyone who you feel has authority. Snow had it. Spicer doesn't. That's the problem.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> I think part of it is that, you know, getting off on the size of the crowd fixation that they had early on, the travel ban, it was one thing after another. So it's almost like he didn't have time to get his footing because there was such a mad rush to confront the press to establish that we were bigger, we were better, and everybody was getting their feet wet. I do think that the power of the satire and Saturday Night Live and the endless loop of the mimicking of people, the left is really smart. They know that the way to defeat people among the younger voters and young people in general, the way to defeat them is to frame them unfairly with a cultural frame that is inescapable. So it was very difficult for Sean even though I think he's actually done a really strong job, especially in the last three months. It's difficult to escape that trap they set and that he stepped into unwittingly. It's almost like you can't get out of it.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> I agree with you. In the beginning it was so insane and then this ongoing Russia thing where the press is hysterical about it. They're using it as as what you said, they're using it as a narrative to portray Trump as a corrupt guy who shouldn't be there. It always goes back to that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the final thing I want to talk to you about is the way... you have a website, <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" target="_blank">LifeZette</a>, right?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura: </strong>Yes.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> OK. I'm now, this is new for me, we've had BillOReilly.com for years but now the power that I have is coming out of the internet. And I like it because I don't have a boss and I can talk right to the folks and there's no commercials and they can attack me but it really doesn't matter. When I had to work for Fox News, I mean, you know, they attacked Fox News every single day. Because of the management shift the strategy shifted. It used to be we'll fight the attacks and then it was well we won't fight them. And as soon as they stopped fighting them all hell broke loose. And the far left accomplished what they wanted to accomplish. They marginalized, to some extent, Fox News. It's not as powerful as it used to be. I think that's accurate and fair, would you say so far?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> I think that what's very difficult is when people are used to seeing a line up in you or a touchstone...like as crazy as the world is getting and had been and the ups and downs of the culture and politics, wars and then political scandals, you know, there was always O'Reilly. And I think, and I said this on my show last week, you were so smart to anchor your identity in the "who is looking out for you." You know, the No Spin Zone, who is looking out for you. People I really think miss that. They miss that sense of ok, I've got to hear what O'Reilly is saying about it. But you know, that was a grounding for people and when you upend that.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> That's why we were target number one. Eventually after 20 years and seven months the far left got what they wanted. But the bigger question is, because of the fragmentation of American viewing habits. You know, if you look at the cable news ratings, there are not a lot of people watching. They're losing. They're losing audience. ESPN is collapsing. Nightly news is collapsing. Look what happened to Megyn Kelly on Sunday night with that crazy interview. Three and a half million people.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> You got more than that on just a regular night at Fox.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> So people are going to this forum. They're going to BillOReilly.com, <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" target="_blank">LifeZette</a>, they're going there and that makes it harder for all politicians to formulate a message that gets through. But what the far left has succeeded in doing is they've organized a cabal of people that echo chamber everything they say. Some of them are paid outright to do it. But the right has nothing like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> No, in fact, instead Independents who tend to be more traditionalists and conservatives are more interested in scoring academic points on one another and imposing ideological purity tests, and holding this person accountable for this deal on trade, or that person said the wrong thing on Islamophobia, instead of saying, look this is our general philosophy, we're going to differ around some of the edges. But this is our overall philosophy. Our alternative was the Clinton's back again in power with all the corruption that we knew would come along with it. We have this guy in the White House who is not perfect, nobody is. We're going to be all for one, one for all, we'll work out our differences, we'll be a fun family feud for a while, but we're going to work it out. We're going to put some points on the board. That's what the Democrats do. They actually hold each other up during difficult times. Instead, the Republicans eat their own. And that's why they have been so ineffective in this period of being in the majority. Woefully ineffective. Pathetic&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> And now with the Fox News Channel having some kind of organizational problems, that gives even more power to the progressive left.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, I want to tell everybody I've known Laura Ingraham, as she pointed out, for a couple of decades now. She's always been an honest woman. I mean, never ever have I seen her not put forth an opinion, a strong point of view, in a well-thought out manner. Never have I seen her flip flop. Never have I seen hypocrisy, ever. And that's stunning.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> So if you do work for Trump or any president, I think you could really, really help them. So look, I want you to be happy. I know what a good Mom you are and that job takes an enormous amount of time. I want you to be a happy person, but you would help anybody with whom you believe, you'd have to believe in them. I mean, you couldn't do it if you didn't. But I wanted to have my audience, the millions of people who follow us here, to know that. I really appreciate you taking the time, Laura. We'll talk to you again soon.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Laura:</strong> Thank you Bill. I really appreciate it. Thanks so much.</p>
<p>[18:05]&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. So again, we thank Laura Ingraham and you should go to her website, <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/" target="_blank">LifeZette</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's an interesting experience to be in this internet world for me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get back to some of the news. In Canada they've passed a law that makes it illegal to use wrong gender pronouns.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Canada's Senate passed bill C-16 which puts gender identity and gender expression into both the country's human rights code as well as the hate crime category of its criminal code. That passed in the Canadian Senate 67 to 11 in Ottawa.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, so that means that if you on purpose call a transgendered person the wrong pronoun, so if it's a she and you say it's a he because he was born and he or she was born and he... see I'd already be prosecuted for making that mistake, you could be in trouble. It's a political correct play. I can't imagine anybody would be prosecuted. But it's on the books in Canada. OK. Not a good thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But we live in a politically correct, mad house world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>North Korea. Otto Warmbier, I'm sure you know, has died. Twenty-two-year-old went over to North Korea, tried to take home a souvenir, they threw him in jail, came back with brain damage, passed away.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They killed him. They being the North Korean administration. So they kill them. OK.</p>
<p>The Chinese tour agency that organizes trips to North Korea where Americans can sign on says it will no longer do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think President Trump should immediately say no travel to North Korea by Americans for the foreseeable future. I'd also move a couple of warships, as I said earlier this week, off the coast of North Korea. Dare them to do anything about it. I wouldn't violate the international waters, it's 12 miles, but 12 miles and one tenth, I'd ship some warships out there. Send him a message.</p>
<p>Now you can't go in and bomb or anything like that. I mean, you just can't. But they did kill an American citizen and anything that we can do, anything that we can do to make North Korea's life more difficult we should do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. So that's pretty much it. There's not a lot of other stuff floating around here that influences your life. Remember, on BillOReilly.com No Spin News, what we try to do are stories that influence you directly, your life directly. But I have a great amount of good mail, So I'm going to spend some time on that right now.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Virginia Dios is in Port Richey, Florida: <em>Sorry, Bill, you totally lost me on your Mueller comment. How can you say you're ok with him when he has been friends with Comey for decades? Whatever happened to conflict of interest?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, Virginia, I'm not analyzing the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, from any point of view other than he was appointed by the Justice Department.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that's a fact. He's there. It would be a disaster if President Trump removes him. A disaster. So it's not going to happen. I can't imagine it happening. All right. But the bottom line on Mueller is this: in his presentation to the public and to Congress, he has to come up with facts. Facts, not Comey's opinion, not whether he doesn't like Trump, or this or that, or he likes Trump, or he likes Comey. It doesn't matter. It's all about facts. And the facts have to be in stone. So let him do what he does and we'll see how it shakes.&nbsp;</p>
<p>George West, Hoover, Alabama: <em>Bill, love the new format and the freedom it gives you to tell us what you really think.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Which I always did on TV, George. But here, I was thinking about it this morning, I don't have any time restraints. I had to keep it pithy and really tightly restrain what the segments were because we had six of them on The Factor and we had time constraints, here we don't have any. That's the big advantage.</p>
<p>Joseph Thomas, and he writes to me on the Bill@BillOReilly.com email line. Bill@BillOReilly.com.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Bill, quite simply I've have had it with North Korea, it's time they paid a price.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, we have a poll on BillOReilly.com: What would you do? And it's interesting because most people would say, you know, we really can't, we've got to be very methodical about this. Can't just go in and bomb something like that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Cheryl Mann-Hall, Port Angeles, Washington: <em>why can't the Trump administration sue for slander or libel or both? Seemed to me that would encourage the news to do their homework and get the facts straight.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you're a public person in America, as I am, it's very hard to sue. Very, very hard. We have far fewer protections than you do and it is frustrating to me, Cheryl, it's wrong.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But if you're famous they can almost say anything they want about you, particularly if you're president.</p>
<p>Florencia Valdes, Cumming, Georgia: <em>Bill, you mentioned on Friday that the mainstream news is unwatchable. Which news sources do you respect enough to read or watch?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know look, I still sample TV news, but not nearly the way I used to, and I turn fast when I hear B.S. I just get out and I see the numbers, I see the ratings and the whole thing is tottering, you know, and I do believe it'll collapse. I think this Trump thing, even people who don't like President Trump, Florencia, they know what he's getting, they know what it is, that it's dishonest.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I read the Wall Street Journal editorial page. I go to CBS News.com for their headlines and what they're looking at. I go to the Washington Post for their headlines, and I don't read their opinion columns because I know what they are. It's a waste of time. But they'll give you a pretty good primer of what's going on in Washington. So I'm floating right now. I'm floating around. And I listen to CBS News Radio in the morning at 8 o'clock, the World News Roundup.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Elaine Fiveland in Sun City, California: <em>just watched the clips from your Westbury, Long Island show with Miller. I saw you in Los Angeles and that was great, but this one looks to be equally so. I laughed out loud and not much elicits that these days. We need you as a news commentator but I really love you as an interviewer. I know you admire Johnny Carson, you are the best interview alive today.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well that's very nice of you to say, Elaine. You know, that skill is something that I developed over many, many years. Carson was a magnetic television presence, not a great interviewer. Mike Wallace was the best interviewer of all time, in my opinion. I watched every move he made. He was unbelievable.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you know, the skill set that I have is something I'm proud of. You can see the show with Dennis Miller, you guys, if you haven't watched it yet. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Highlights-from-Bill-OReilly--Dennis-Miller-on-Tour/334045363574986039.html" target="_blank">We have posted a clip from Westbury.</a> Everybody seemed to enjoy that. You know, we have the four shows coming up that we want everybody to see us in. Baltimore on September 22nd, Friday night. Tampa, Florida, the Amalie Arena on September 23rd. Vegas and Caesar's Palace, that show's almost sold out. If you want to see us in Vegas, you've got to move it, December 15th. Anaheim, California also selling very briskly, Saturday December 16th.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Tickets for the December shows make great early Christmas gifts. And those are the only shows with Miller and I. We've got four more left, and we'll flip you over to the box office on BillOReilly.com, make it easy for you. So check that out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Linda Park is in Westborough, Massachusetts: <em>Bill, outstanding interview with you and Miller. Thanks so much. My goodness, your voices are so needed at this time. I used to love the opening message on the Legends &amp; Lies series when Dermot Mulroney said that news is the first draft of history. How I wish every journalist would think that way, and you and Miller do.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Well thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the clip and the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Premium-Member-Exclusive:-Bill--Dennis-Backstage-on-Tour/-450078856737269220.html" target="_blank">interview yesterday with Miller</a>, Linda. One of the great things about the podcast and doing this BillOReilly.com stuff is that if you miss it one day you can access it. We have it for you. OK. So you can, you know, that's great. You missed The factor you missed The factor. But not now. You can get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jonathan Manko, North Aurora, Illinois: <em>has the President signed up for Premium Membership yet?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think he has but he's following us on Twitter. We have 2 million Twitter followers. And I don't even know how to.... I think it's @BillOReilly.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>So anyway, look, another great day and I really appreciate you guys being Premium Members. And I appreciate Laura Ingraham coming on, she's very busy. We're trying to round up Bernie Goldberg later on this week and a few others. I'll be back on video, you'll be able to see me on Thursday.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We'll check in tomorrow on the audio band and I really appreciate you guys being Premium Members</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-20T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on More Terror in London & Mueller's InvestigationBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-More-Terror-in-London--Muellers-Investigation/769709166584890942.html2017-06-19T23:00:00Z2017-06-19T23:00:00Z<p>Audio of Bill's backstage interview with Dennis Miller begins at the 20:28 mark of this No Spin News. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bills-Full-Backstage-Interview-with-Dennis-Miller/-450078856737269220.html" target="_blank">Click here to watch the video of the interview.&nbsp;</a><br /><br />Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday the 19th of June 2017. We're just audio today because we're putting in a new camera system in my office. So beginning on Thursday we'll have a little bit more camera stuff. I don't even know what they're doing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm out here on eastern Long Island in front of the computer looking at the ocean and talking to you in a big mic, it's a big mic. But sorry about the no video, but we will have it by the end of the week. And we are working on a super duper, super-duper video component and some of you may have read the articles over the weekend that, you know, we're moving ahead here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We're hiring people and I'm not exactly sure how it's going to shake down, it will be interesting, but we're going to certainly have a voice in this country because it's badly needed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now one of the reasons I know that was because Dennis Miller and I did two sold out shows at Westbury Music Fair. They call it the theater at Westbury now. On Saturday night about eight thousand people showed up. And it was a real interesting evening. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Highlights-from-Bill-OReilly--Dennis-Miller-on-Tour/334045363574986039.html" target="_blank">We've posted for you, BillOReilly.com Premium Members, on the website a portion of that show.</a> The Spin Stops Here show, you can see it free, live, not live, but we did it live. No edits. And you can get a flavor of what we do and why people like it so much.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then in the body of that I answer questions about people asking "<em>are you going to come back to TV</em>" and you know so I basically laid out that we don't know exactly what we're going to do yet, we're going to always do the No Spin News. but whether we sign on with another corporation...it's a difficult thing. Corporations really have a strong stomach if they want to get into this arena because of the far left crazy progressive haters attacking sponsors and doing what they do.</p>
<p>So anyway, we also have an interview with Miller, which I did in the dressing rooms Saturday night. We're going to do audio at the end of this newscast. But you can access video of it too on the website. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bills-Full-Backstage-Interview-with-Dennis-Miller/-450078856737269220.html" target="_blank">So if you want to see Miller and I, all you've got to do is after the No Spin News click on over, there's a gizmo on the website to do that.</a> If you're listening to us in a podcast format, you have to go to BillOReilly.com but you can see the Miller thing. It's 10 minutes. It's very funny and I think...it concerns President Trump because most of the Spin Stops Here show on my end was about Donald Trump and what's really going on there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we've get a lot of motion this week. Not a lot of big news stories. I mean, the biggest story is that some nut took his vehicle in London and staked out a mosque and ran over a bunch of Muslims, killing one of them and hurting about 10 others. This is a revenge terror in London.&nbsp;</p>
<p>London is really, you know, in a bad place. And I'll remind you again that the British subjects, unlike American citizens, if you live in England and you hold a passport you're a British subject, you're a subject to, of course, the monarchy. Not anymore because the monarchy doesn't have any power. But they still call you British subjects.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The British subjects voted to leave the European Union because they were fed up with the immigration patterns and everybody can go where they want. And they didn't feel it was a good thing for the United Kingdom so they voted out. And that's still going to happen.</p>
<p>But in the meantime, because they spent so many years there, there are huge Muslim populations in almost every population center in England. And, you know, Muslim terrorism has now gotten to the point where there's great divisions happening among the population of the UK. And this terror incident, it was terrorism. You drive a car into a group of people, that's terrorism. And you know, you don't know these people, they're innocent, you're just trying to hurt them. That's what terrorists do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On the Trump front, things are pretty quiet. And you know, for the good of the country, I hope they stay that way for a little bit. You know, Donald Trump has got a lot to do. So you hand it over to your lawyers and I know you have to do some PR, and we discussed that with Miller. And in the Spin Stops Here show on Saturday night we discussed that a lot.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Trump's got to defend himself, but he can't be obsessed with that. I mean, it's got to come like maybe eighth or ninth after he does the day's work. Because really there's a lot of very important things in play: The new health care bill, the tax cut, the immigration problems now that we want to try to solve, sanctuary cities, the economy, which looks like it's getting better, all of that. That's what should be occupying the president's time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, let Mueller and the Russian thing play out. The most important point that you should know as fair minded people, and most of you are, I know that, the most important thing that you know is that unlike the press, Robert Mueller, the special counsel, can't present innuendo, blind sourcing, anonymous this, he can't.</p>
<p>If somebody did something wrong, legally wrong vis-a-vis Russia, Mueller's got to present the facts, the evidence to the American people. So you know, B.S. walks now. It walks. And if somebody says something in a testimony to Mueller, well he's got to back that up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anybody can make an allegation about anything. And unfortunately the press, of course, runs and thinks it's true. I did a little bit on Saturday night at the theater about a CNN anchor who last week when it broke that Mueller was investigating the president on obstruction, that now it's a criminal probe.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I... we did this last week. This woman was about to bolt out of her chair she was so happy. And I'm looking at her and I go <em>are you kidding</em>? Of course she's going to investigate allegations of obstruction. Of course, why would he not? He's the special counsel, that is his job among other things. And there's no evidence to base a criminal accusation on. So it's an investigation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And I use the IRS analogy. If you're audited by the IRS, you, the honest American citizen, you're under a criminal investigation technically. If they find out you didn't pay your taxes then you could be prosecuted. Come on.</p>
<p>But everybody...oh I'm under criminal investigation... Come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's just such a dishonest, disgusting... dis, you just put it in front of the word. Horrible.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bill:-Sandy-Hook-Families-Deserve-Better-Than-Alex-Jones/954668957244158498.html" target="_blank">I wrote a column this morning for TheHill.com</a>, which is a newspaper in DC run by a really interesting guy named Jimmy Finkelstein. And I like Jimmy and he's asked me to write some columns and I am writing them for him. And this column is on the Megyn Kelly/Alex Jones interview last night on NBC. You can access the column on TheHill.com or on BillOReilly.com. We posted it and Jimmy was kind enough to let me do that. I'll let you read it. It's a little bit more textured than the spoken word.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the bottom line is nobody watched the interview. It got three and a half million viewers. I used to do three and a half million viewers in the first half hour of The Factor. So nobody watched it. I don't know the reason why, it got hyped to the moon, but nobody cared. The interview itself wasn't bad. I mean, Megyn Kelly didn't do anything bad in the interview. I mean, she asked the questions that needed to be asked, she was clear and concise. It wasn't bad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But did I care what Alex Jones had to say? No. Why would I care? The guy is a conspiratorialist. He's making money off deceit. How many people make money off deceit in the media these days, right? So what do I care what he says. I don't care. I wouldn't have run it, I told you that last week, because it hurt the families of Sandy Hook up in Connecticut. It hurt them. On Father's Day we have to go through this again? So I wouldn't have run it.</p>
<p>But NBC decided that there was news in it and they ran it. OK. All right. That's their editorial opinion. But then I watched it and I didn't get any news out of it. I didn't learn anything. And that's not Kelly's fault. Not her fault.</p>
<p>I mean, it's just the topic. I mean, here's the guy, the guy says that Sandy Hook shootings didn't happen because it was a fake event to make people crack down on guns. And then you got no evidence of that. And he spouts this kind of conspiratorial garbage. He was a 9/11 truther, same kind of thing. So why am I listening to this?&nbsp;</p>
<p>But anyway, the American public spoke, they didn't watch it. I don't think we'll be seeing a lot of that again. But I do want you to read my column and weigh in on it because I think it's a very interesting phenomenon in the media. And one of the things I say in the column that you might be interested in is that the national media in this country, newspapers, and not radio so much, but newspapers and television, is collapsing. It's collapsing under the weight of dishonesty, and that has given even more power to the Internet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean, I never in a million years thought I would base my analysis on the net. But that's exactly what I'm doing. Now I don't have to do that, I've had plenty of offers, but to me, I don't have any corporate masters. I can talk directly to you. The Premium Memberships are through the roof. People want this service, it seems. And when we expand it I think we're going to triple, quadruple what the Premium Membership is. And they got the game, they know they're not going the truth, generally speaking, from the national media anymore. So it's all tied in and it's a little complicated and you know, you want to check out the column, you want to check out the clip of the Spin Stops Here shows.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's get to the mail. Got a letter from Diana on the message boards. She lives in Nampa, Idaho: <em>Bill, what do you think about challenging everyone on social media to halt the negative, vicious Trump rhetoric so we can proceed with the business of the people? So much is not getting done, it's only hurting those who have the greatest need. I plan on challenging friends on Facebook to take the stand.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well you're a very noble person, Diana, and you're a logical person, but with all the emotion both pro and against Donald Trump, it's never going to happen. People want to vent and they use their computers to vent because they are anonymous. They can hide while they're venting.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Eloise. You don't hear that name very much. Eloise O'Brien lives in Iowa: <em>There is talk of sending more troops to Afghanistan. I don't disagree, but question how safe the troops will be. The Afghanistan military is shooting and killing our American troop surge.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, look. Afghanistan is impossible, Eloise. It's just impossible. I went there, I was just there for a few days. It's a society that's primitive. Most people can't even read or write. They don't have electricity. Democracy is a foreign agent. The Taliban are brutal. There's corruption all over the place. We don't want that country to slide back into anarchy and chaos so that ISIS or al-Qaeda can take it over again. We don't want that. So the best thing we can do is just tough it out in a stalemate, which is what it is.</p>
<p>Now, the commanders believe they need more American troops to cut down on terrorism in the main cities like Kabul. But you're never going to be able to convince the Afghan people in mass to do anything. Life expectancy in Afghanistan is like 42 years old. You're dead after that. You know, it's kids running around with these guns. So it's a horrible situation, there's no doubt about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Margaret Whitley, Canton, Georgia: <em>love your teaching on the resistance, Bill. How did George Soros get such influence in American politics?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>He bought it. He bought it. He gives money to radical left groups, shadowy people, you know, pays them off, gives them cash through his foundations, and they get money. And so if you have a lot of money and you're spreading it around you can get influence in any way, shape, or form.&nbsp;</p>
<p>John Foley, Scranton, Pennsylvania, where I started my career at Channel 16: <em>Bill, how would you punish North Korea for killing an American citizen if you were President Trump?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ah,you didn't listen last week, John. We dealt with this. Because they killed this young American 22 year old. He's got brain damage, he's never going to be a functioning person again. And they did it. They being the North Korean government. So I would put warships off the coast. You know it's 12 miles in international waters, probably 12 and a quarter miles you'd have two or three American warships sitting there. And North Korea wants to challenge us? Go ahead.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now we had this situation in Syria where U.S. pilots shot down a Syrian jet and now Russia says <em>well we may shoot down one of your planes</em>. That's bluster, I believe. I don't think Putin is that stupid. But if we are, we the American military, is in Syria fighting ISIS on the ground and Syrian planes are bombing us, we're going to shoot those planes down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I said a long time ago when Assad first used poison gas that Obama should have obliterated the Syrian air force. That's what the red line should have been. Boom, you're outta business. Now, Russia goes oh, you know.... OK, Putin.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We can't stop protecting our people on the ground. If a Syrian plane is threatening American troops on the ground, special forces that are after ISIS are going to shoot that plane down. That's it. If Russia wants to get involved, to their peril.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm not a hawk either. I'm not a hawk, but if you're going to go after ISIS with American Special Forces and somebody is bombing them, you shoot that plane down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gary Walsh Laguna Niguel, nice town, California: <em>Bill, love the new format, looking forward to the upcoming surprises.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So am I, Gary. I don't even know what they are.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>My question is why can't the FCC do something about the hateful and false reporting of CNN and other networks who continue to spew lies every day in their news?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because the FCC isn't there as a censorship agent. It's basically quality control. But that's all gone because of cable and subscriptions and Netflix and Amazon, DirecTV. The FCC is just there in name only. You know, if one of the big networks does something really egregious maybe the FCC would step in with a fine, it wouldn't matter. But the FCC is just a paper tiger at this point.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anthony, Nicaragua: <em>Bill, I am a new Premium Member living down here. I'm also a Vietnam vet, 1st Cav. Such a relief to find you as a source for news that is free from obvious bias. I tune into CNN for most news since I am in Nicaragua now and that was hard because it's so biased. I just got sick and tired of it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, look. CNN International, they're on all the cable bands. And yeah, they're biased. They're not doing very well in the ratings here in the United States, by the way. They have not benefited from the Trump hate as MSNBC has.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sharon Felton in Hudson, New Hampshire: <em>last year for Father's Day I took my Dad and Mom to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut to see you and Miller. It was great. This year Dad had to settle for Premium Membership and Killing the Rising Sun.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I'm sure Dad is very happy for the Premium Membership and Killing the Rising Sun. Sharon, you are a very good daughter and that's the important thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mary Murphy, Stillwater, Oklahoma: <em>enjoying Killing Patton. Thank you for the prompt delivery from BillOReilly.com. When Patton was wounded in World War One it was my father, Captain Raymond H. Fox who removed the bullet from him. My father was on the frontline in the medical unit and after the war he had a family practice in Oklahoma, practiced medicine for 50 years.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well, Mary, you should be very proud of your Dad on Father's Day yesterday. Patton made his bones in World War One, brutal conflict. My grandfather was there. But I'm happy to hear that your father had such a productive life.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ed Cumming, Garden City, New York: <em>treated my wife and myself to your show at Westbury on Saturday, Bill. I want to thank you for a wonderful time. Miller was hilarious. You were spot on with your commentary. Very happy being a Premium Member and enjoy watching the podcast. Can't wait to see what your new expanded format will be like.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Well thank you, Ed, for coming, you and your wife. We had a great time. Again, we have a clip posted of the show on Saturday so everybody can see it. And I'm going to read one more letter and right after that, stay on the line here where you are if you are on BillOReilly.com, you will hear Miller audio. If you want to see Miller and I, you can do that because <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Bills-Full-Backstage-Interview-with-Dennis-Miller/-450078856737269220.html" target="_blank">we have a separate link to that on our website.</a> It's all very confusing to me but I'm sure you'll figure it out. If you listening on a podcast, just go to BillOReilly.com, click over and you can watch Miller and I.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ruth Elias wraps it up, Locust Valley, New York is where she lives: <em>Love putting on the podcast every morning when I leave to work. It's exactly the right length. Twenty five minutes to get me there. Question, if Robert Mueller is such a fair minded boy scout, why is he hiring all these sketchy attorneys with strong democratic ties?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mueller is hiring people he knows. You know, I mean, I don't think he's looking for a political affiliation from any of his folks, but he knows these people. That's the way it works in Washington. You know somebody, you think they're competent, smart, you hire them. Again, here's the bottom line with Mueller, very important for all of you to remember, OK, very, very important: If Mueller presents anything negative about Donald Trump or his crew, he has to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Proof. Not innuendo, not anonymous sources. Proof.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thank you for being Premium Members and listening to me. We will be back again tomorrow.&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-19T23:00:00ZThe Wild Week That WasBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/The-Wild-Week-That-Was/655231792923484666.html2017-06-16T23:00:00Z2017-06-16T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, newscast, podcast whatever you want to call it. It&rsquo;s a special Friday edition. Usually, don't do it on Fridays, but because we had a terrible screw up on Monday we'll give you an extra one. This is going to be a week in review because there's a lot of stuff going on and a lot of new things came in overnight so I want to put it all into perspective for you. And we really appreciate you being premium members especially you dads happy Father's Day. Get that done up top.</p>
<p>First thing is the shooter Congressman Scalise from Louisiana is still in critical condition. Basically, it's a blood thing. We're just praying for him. And I have confidence he's getting the best medical care in the country. So that's all I can say.</p>
<p>Right here, where I am on Long Island is a neighborhood boy named Charlie Strecker who fell off his bike and is in a self induced coma, medical induced coma. When you're praying for a congressman Scalise, please remember Charlie as well. Really good kid. It just breaks my heart when this stuff happens so Charlie Strecker we're praying for you.</p>
<p>Now the guy who killed, not killed but shot up the baseball field. Nothing has really changed there. Sixty-six-year-old nut from Illinois goes in, if the capitol police weren't there protecting Congressman Scalise, it could have been 15 or 20 dead. A massacre of unbelievable proportions. But because the police were there to shoot back at this man nobody has died yet and five people wounded. The guy is or was, he's dead, a very disturbed individual, a very violent individual. We know that now because they've traced him back. He's violent all his life and the fuse was lit by his political views and his anti-Republican views.</p>
<p>Not much more to the story about him. He's evil and I'm sure he's paying a price right now.</p>
<p>If you're a believer, he's paying a price. As far as we on Earth and in America are concerned, there is no question the hatred directed at Donald Trump has now affected this nation in a way that is brutal. And it&rsquo;s got to stop. So my job is to tell you who the haters are and what they're doing. And we we're going to do that you know in a very very specific way going forward. So there are a bunch of groups. They are well funded, well organized and their only job is to destroy the President or anyone who supports him. They're haters and we'll talk about that more in a moment on the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html">resistance thing that we spoke about on Tuesday</a> of this week.</p>
<p>I'm not so concerned about Kathy Griffin and Bill Maher and his celebrities, everybody knows what that is. I'm more concerned, just so you know where we're going here in the weeks to come, with the shadow groups that are paying demonstrators &ndash; paying them to cause trouble, that are targeting sponsors of television and radio programs, threatening sponsors. These are the crews that we&rsquo;re going to go after in a pretty big way. We&hellip;I, not we. I believe that this country is now in danger. America is in danger. These forces of the resistance, got to be dealt with.</p>
<p>If I were President Trump instead of micro tweeting about his situation, I would be concentrating on getting that word out because it's the same.</p>
<p>Let's get into the Mueller investigation. Again, as we said yesterday, is anybody surprised that the special counsel appointed by the Justice Department is investigating what he was hired to investigate? Just because he's investigating the president, the vice president, anybody else, doesn't mean they're guilty. And it doesn't mean they did anything remotely wrong. An investigation is just an investigation. He was hired to investigate. That's what Mueller is doing. Now we can speculate that he's not going to do a fair job. I don't know that. I don't know that.</p>
<p>So at this point the hysteria generated by the anti-Trump media &ndash;<em>Oh, criminal investigation</em>. As we pointed out yesterday, if you're audited by the IRS that's a criminal investigation. They're trying to find out if you cheated on your taxes, which is a crime. So let's be fair about this and put it into perspective again. That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll do.</p>
<p>Now, the president tweets out &ndash;<em>it's a witch hunt</em>. It is. That's absolutely right. It is a witch hunt. All right. And that it's a fake news story. Not so sure about the fake news story. There may be elements of the Trump campaign that did stuff wrong.</p>
<p>That's certainly possible. Flynn he did. So not fake, but you got to stair step it.</p>
<p>You know. You go where the evidence takes you, not where the speculation takes you. I can't even watch. I know I get a lot of letters. Can&rsquo;t watch cable TV anymore. It's just stupid. What they're doing. And I'm glad I'm out of it. You know, if I were doing it I would do it differently, of course. But it&rsquo;s just&hellip; I can't tell you.</p>
<p>Now the culture war in this country has shifted into disagreement and sniping back and forth to let's destroy each other. The resistance that's modeled after the Nazi resistance, that's why they used the word, two associated with Donald Trump. If Donald Trump went out tomorrow and said I'm going to feed every poor person in the country for the next 30 days free, the resistance would say <em>Oh you're making them fat</em>.</p>
<p>So that's what it is. We're going to destroy Trump no matter what it takes. No matter what we have to do. We're going to destroy him. That's the resistance. Hillary Clinton signed on to it and a number of other people have as well. So just so you know and it's not just about Trump it's about you the American voter, as <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Political-Shooting-Mueller-Probe-and-Expanding-this-Forum/-623962658076529662.html">I said on Tuesday</a>. They want to throw out the whole election &ndash;the resistance. To them the election, because they don't like the outcome, wasn't legitimate. So we're going to throw it out. We're going to find a way to delegitimize the presidency. It's just so bad. So awful. So seditious. I can't just tell you.</p>
<p>The other news story that I didn't mention this week, that I feel terrible about, is this Otto Warmbierand and his family in Ohio. He was a guy went over to North Korea. And believe me, do not, do not go to North Korea or Iran under any circumstances. Do not go there. So he's arrested because he tried to take a souvenir home and he's thrown in jail. Healthy kid. 22-years-old and now he comes back with a head injury and it looks like he's not going to recover. The North Koreans killed him. They killed him. They killed an American citizen. Now President Trump, I'm watching that. I'm not doing anything impulsively, but North Korea killed an American citizen. That&rsquo;s what they did.</p>
<p>Got to pay a price. So I'm going to watch President Trump. See what he does. See how they handle it. They have to pay a price. Can't be killing American citizens &ndash; civilians. Insane. That's what happened here. This poor kid. He&rsquo;s 22 and his family. You probably saw them on TV.</p>
<p>He goes over there. He makes a mistake. He wanted to get a souvenir. The little poster that was up &ndash; takes it. They arrest him. Throw him in jail for almost two years. He comes back with a brain injury. Disgusting. Just disgusting North Korea.</p>
<p>So that's what we can review. And I got some good letters that I want to read to you. We&rsquo;ll go through them now. Also, we are looking for suggestions on this podcast of things you'd like to see. I know a lot of you asked for Word of the Day. We're going to get back to Word of the Day and Tip of the Day when we expand the forum. We are going to expand. You're going to really love what we&rsquo;re going to do, but it takes a little time to put, you know, we're like starting from scratch on a news operation here. That's what we're doing. That's the plan. So it takes time and you know we're adding people and adding infrastructure.</p>
<p>Going to have a new look next week. Now, the first three days of the week I'm going to be out east. So you're going to hear me. I'm going to do the podcast. You won&rsquo;t see me. But then when I come back on Thursday we're going to have an extravaganza that's different. So they tell me. So anyway, we'll have fun no matter what. But I will be on the eastern end of Long Island and Monday I'll explain why I'm doing, what I'm doing out there.</p>
<p>Let's go to Linda M. Politti in Salem, South Carolina. <em>Last night Bill, you said you use your forum to fight the hatred and dishonesty that is going on in our country. I can't thank you enough for that. I wish it was something I could do. But at least I can give you my total support.</em></p>
<p>There is something you could do Linda and I want all premium members to do it. Just get a couple of people to sign up for premium membership. You know we want to expand this forum. So the more people we have &ndash; the more power we have. So spread the word. We're keeping the price very reasonable. You get the free stuff. You get the big discounts. It's not a money making operation &ndash;</p>
<p>I mean as far as we're greedy and we want money. Not that. It&rsquo;s more of a public service. We need you guys to spread the word.</p>
<p>Stephen Bowen in Castroville, Texas. <em>Bill, in <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Political-Shooting-Mueller-Probe-and-Expanding-this-Forum/-623962658076529662.html">yesterday's podcast</a> you mentioned we need to stop political hate. I say we need to go a step further. People on both sides of the aisle need to start condemning hate on their side when they see it</em>.</p>
<p>Not going to happen. The politicians are craven &ndash; Word of the Day. Craven. And in the media it&rsquo;s too much money to be made.</p>
<p>So MSNBC, hate Trump movement, their ratings have gone up because all the Trump haters now watch them for the conspiracy theories and all stuff that they give them.</p>
<p>That's money. They are not going to change that format. They are not going to do that. And then on the political side, I mean Nancy Pelosi is never going to criticize her progressive movement. Ever. Ever. Because she's craven. Not looking out for the country. Not looking out for you. She's looking out for herself and her progressive politics. So that's not going to happen.</p>
<p>Randy Stearns in Virginia Beach. I'm retiring from the Navy after 26 years as an aviator and treated myself to BillOReilly.com premium membership. Love the podcast and I can now listen to you at the gym early in the morning &ndash; get caught up in all news. Cable news is basically unwatchable, but I learn something new every day from the podcast.</p>
<p>Well, congratulations on your retirement and congratulations on your service to our country Randy. Virginia Beach one of my favorite places because a big naval port and I'm glad you're a premium member and all your peers in the Navy. Let them know by e-mail. Hey, we're looking after you guys. Get into premium membership here.</p>
<p>Brenda Moore in Clinton, Iowa. <em>I'm 11 minutes into your <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html">resistance piece</a> from a few days ago and marveling at what a good teacher you are. I'm enjoying the podcast much more than a 15 second soundbites pro offered by your former venue.</em> So what she means is that when we were on TV we did the No Spin News but it was in a much more abbreviated form because I was running around all day doing a television show. Now we're doing a half hour that kind of thing on the podcast and we'll expand that. It's going to get a little bit longer. I don't want to get too much longer. But we're going to expand a little bit. And it's unfettered. No commercials. No I&rsquo;m up against the clock. I have to cut people off.</p>
<p>And we're going to bring in more guests. Next week we're going for Laura Ingraham and Bernie Goldberg and Dennis Miller. We're going to build up our cadre of contributors so a lot of good stuff happening.</p>
<p>Robert Lynch in Jeffersonville, Indiana. <em>My wife and I became premium members. Watch the podcast religiously. You mentioned <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Political-Shooting-Mueller-Probe-and-Expanding-this-Forum/18517676768411147.html">Thursday</a> that the Russians influenced the election by bringing up bad news about Hillary Clinton. So then didn't Barack Obama influence the election when he campaigned for Hillary bringing up bad news about Donald Trump?</em></p>
<p>But the difference is that that's a campaign strategy and they are Americans. Barack Obama is an American. And the two parties go after each other. There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with that. That's what we do.</p>
<p>But when a foreign power tries to undermine the election by furtive, sly, sneaky behind the scenes hacking that's an assault on our democracy. So that's a difference. You can&rsquo;t have Russia doing this. And I was happy to see Congress pass those sanctions into law yesterday. You know. Let's squeeze those people over there.</p>
<p>Kelly Kimmo in Huntington, Indiana. <em>Hey Bill, I've come up with a great idea for you to get the word out about stopping the hate. How about T-shirts that say It's not cool to be cruel.</em></p>
<p>I like that. It's not cool to be cruel.</p>
<p><em>And the proceeds go to charity. </em></p>
<p>Let me think about that for Christmas. That's a good idea Kelly. Thank you very much for that.</p>
<p>Joe Jarod in Minneapolis. <em>Do you think President Trump is at fault for all the chaos, violence and hysteria the left is putting forth? Politics have risen to a whole new level of crazy since he became president. </em></p>
<p>He's a polarizing man Donald Trump. He's a polarizing guy. So is Barack Obama. So is he. Different styles but polarizing. You can't say that President Trump's at fault for the hateful rhetoric.</p>
<p>You can say that maybe the president dials back a bit. As an example that go to the issue, but I don't think it's at his doorstep. I mean he was elected and he hasn't had one hour in Washington where he's not been attacked. He has the right to defend himself. President has a right to tweet defense. He does. I would do it a little bit differently if I were him. But I'm not laying the blame at his doorstep. At all.</p>
<p>Steve Waguh, in Visalia, California. <em>Why can't the Supreme Court or the Department of Justice issue a gag order to stop media from reporting leaks?</em> Because that's a violation of freedom of the press and Supreme Court would never uphold it. You can prosecute them. And that's been done with the National Security league is printed or broadcasts. And it puts people in danger. You can charge them, but you can&rsquo;t gag them.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ann Herz in Denver. <em>My birthday is next Wednesday the 21st. Bought myself an early gift and signed up to become a BillOReilly.com premium member. Best gift ever!</em></p>
<p>Well, look Ann, happy birthday to you. Live in a great city Denver. I lived there for two years. I worked at Channel 7 there. Caused a lot of trouble when I was in Colorado investigating things like drug transship to Aspen, Pitkin County that were allowed by the authorities. They didn't like it there. I remember Hunter Thompson, a crazy writer. Dr. Hunter Thompson send me a letter saying if I came to Pitkin County again he was going to shoot me. Of course, I broadcast it. But I love Colorado. It's such a beautiful place. And happy birthday to you Ann.</p>
<p>James Shaddix in Hollis Center, Maine. Another nice state. <em>Bill, I want to let you know how much I enjoyed the No Spin News and all the interactive polls that come with my premium membership. Also I very much enjoy your book <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Last-Days-Series/The-Last-Days-of-Jesus/42334.html?dispid=175">The Last Days of Jesus</a>. The way you write makes me feel like I was there. </em></p>
<p>Well, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Last-Days-Series/The-Last-Days-of-Jesus/42334.html?dispid=175">The Last Days of Jesus</a> is the kid's book off <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Killing-Jesus/Killing-Jesus/39889.html?dispid=433">Killing Jesus</a>. And when I say kids book, adults can read these books too. It's just a different format. There&rsquo;s a lot of pictures and the explanations are shorter. So on Tuesday, we had <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/48389.html">The Day the World Went Nuclear</a> off <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Killing-The-Rising-Sun/Killing-the-Rising-Sun/47334.html">Killing the Rising Sun</a>. I have too many books hidden in the marketplace right now. I know that. It's just a coincidence that happened. All right. But they're all good and they've all been huge bestsellers, but there are too many and I'm sure you're annoyed that I have to tell you about them. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/The-Day-the-World-Went-Nuclear/48389.html">The Day the World Went Nuclear</a> is next Tuesday. Kids, it's important that they know how this nuclear age came upon us and they will like it.</p>
<p>Bill Bohan in Wilmington, North Carolina. <em>Just finished listening to <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168">Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War</a> by far the best of all my collection. I was born in Baltimore in 1929 and never heard my hometown referred to as &ldquo;mob town&rdquo; as you do on page 46. Can you expand on this for an old timer? Hey Bill, congratulations on making it to wood 88.</em></p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168">Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War</a>, we separate the myths from the reality. Maryland was a slave state that didn't fight for the Confederacy. A lot of people don&rsquo;t know that.</p>
<p>So Maryland was divided in Baltimore, biggest city in Maryland, was a chaotic mess between Confederates and Unionists &ndash; between people who wanted slavery abolished and people who did not.</p>
<p>So therefore it was so much violence and so many demonstrations and so much chaos that it was nicknamed &ldquo;mob town&rdquo; because there were mobs everywhere during the Civil War. So that's why Baltimore became infamous. And how many people know that? Nobody knows it. I didn't know it until we started to research <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168">Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War</a>.</p>
<p>So let me do some touts. Father's Day. Happy Father's Day as I mentioned. Premium membership great gift. You'll get it instantly if you're behind the curve. All the books <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/c/L&amp;L-Companion-Volumes/1/168.html">Legends &amp; Lies</a>, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Old-School/Old-School/48426.html">Old School</a>, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-Killing-Series/Killing-the-Rising-Sun/47334.html?dispid=174">Killing the Rising Sun</a> make great Father&rsquo;s Day gifts.</p>
<p>The shows, Miller and I will see you in <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/1500526FE5EB4F49">Baltimore</a>, <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0D0052779D25DB9A">Tampa in Amalie</a>, <a href="https://www.axs.com/events/333327/bill-o-reilly-dennis-miller-tickets?skin=colosseum">Caesar's Palace in Vegas</a> and <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0900527DA80870FC">Honda Center in Anaheim</a>. Just click on over on the website. The box office is right there. Tremendous Father&rsquo;s Day gifts &ndash; the best ever.</p>
<p>And finally, I did an <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReillys-Interview-with-One-America-News-Network/-741904477023571946.html">interview with the One America News Network</a> yesterday. We posted that. You can watch that. It was pretty interesting. You know, we do these interviews from time to time and I was on <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReilly-and-Glenn-Beck-Talk-Megyn-Kellys-Alex-Jones-Interview/522911243564218557.html">Glenn Beck today</a>.</p>
<p>Beck and I think we have a really good rapport on the radio. That's going to be posted too throughout the weekend. You will want to hear that. Beck and I are working pretty well. And that's it.</p>
<p>I want you to have a great Father's Day weekend. We'll be talking to you again on Monday.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-16T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on the Political Shooting, Mueller Probe, and Expanding this ForumBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-the-Political-Shooting-Mueller-Probe-and-Expanding-this-Forum/-623962658076529662.html2017-06-15T23:00:00Z2017-06-15T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin newscast or podcast whatever you want to call it, I keep looking around for the pods but they're not here, for Thursday, June 15th half the month gone 2017.</p>
<p>So a couple of notes we will have a special podcast for you tomorrow on Friday. Usually don't do Fridays but we will because we screwed up on Monday and I apologize again for that. We have super duper high tech stuff coming in here next week. We're going to revamp the look. So it's cleaner. The sound is better. You know look we're just starting in this thing. And down the road we're going to have a real special announcement for you you're going to be glad your premium members. And also <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReillys-Interview-with-One-America-News-Network/-741904477023571946.html" target="_blank">I was on One American News Network today</a> speaking about it, we are going to have that on BillOReilly.com and hope you saw that. A lot of stuff going on.</p>
<p>So much stuff that I can't even keep track of it all. But be that as it may we're going to give you a really excellent product going forward.</p>
<p>Now, let's take a look at the news.</p>
<p>Lead story is a shooting aftermath. And as we said yesterday it's political crime. It was generated by a 66-year-old man, obviously demented. You don't do things like that unless you're crazy. That doesn't excuse the action though. I would never do what they did to Hinckley and put him in an insane asylum. Absolutely not. I mean if he were alive he's tried and executed. I don't believe in capital punishment, but I'm sure he would get it in Virginia. And you can't ever see the man again. He's done. So even though you're demented that doesn't excuse evil, your evil acts.</p>
<p>But the really compelling thing and I thought about this all last night and it's been brought out by a lot of people &ndash;If the two capital cops weren't there armed shooting back at them, you would have had a massacre of 15-16 human beings. And this guy was bent on killing as many Republicans as he could kill. Now it's nobody's fault like he's a big fan of a certain person at MSNBC or this and that.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not their fault. They didn't inspire him. He's just crazy. He's a progressive far left loon. All right. And this is how we act it out.</p>
<p>Now, in the aftermath the coverage was pretty brutal.</p>
<p>Now Sarah Palin may sue the <em>New York Times</em>. I don't want to get into the <em>New York Times</em>. I have my own beef with them. And I'm taking my time about that, but Sarah Palin is threatening to sue them for breaking an editorial that kind of implicated her in the shooting of Gabby Giffords in Arizona the congresswoman. Palin had nothing to do with it. You know this is the kind of hateful stuff that we see all the time.</p>
<p>And I saw a bunch of garbage last night on TV. I turned it off quickly. I just can't. I know who the perpetrators are. I know who they are personally and professionally. I knew every single one of them. You know it&rsquo;s not my job to sit here and harpoon people. I could do it easily. But I'll tell you have very very little respect for 80% of broadcast journalists. 20% are good. 80% are not.</p>
<p>That's a lot.</p>
<p>If it had been reversed, and this is speculation but not really, and a Trump supporter had killed Democrats on the baseball diamond. Then Donald Trump would have been directly implicated in that killing by the media and everybody knows it. Right. Anybody disagreeing with me on this? I don't think so.</p>
<p>So you have a situation where the hatred in this country is so intense toward a sitting president that violence is going to continue. I'm going to make that prediction. It's not the end of it. Not the end of it. And you're going to see it.</p>
<p>The beginning of the violence didn't happen rhetorically. Didn't happen on cable news or reading the newspapers. It happened in the demonstration, in particularly in Berkeley, things like that when you saw the mass people come out started destroying, attacked the cops. That was the real beginning of the violence that we're now seeing in political circles. And now it's gone into lone nuts.</p>
<p>I'll answer some questions about the guy later. He's not anything out of the ordinary. He's just a guy. All right. And he worked. He wasn't particularly successful. He lived in Illinois. He was on social media which drives a lot of the hatred. On the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/OReillys-Interview-with-One-America-News-Network/-741904477023571946.html" target="_blank"><em>One American News Network</em> </a>they asked me <em>What's the difference now? There was always hatred between the parties.</em> <em>Going back to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in their run for president. </em></p>
<p>Now you can immediately access the hate. It used to be like in the 30s 40s 50s and 60s if you wanted to find out about the Ku Klux Klan you had to go out and try to find them. You didn&rsquo;t know what they were or what they doing. It was a secret thing and they would run out in their dopey hoods. And most Americans they heard of it. They knew what it was. They didn't know the extent of what the evil was. Okay.</p>
<p>Same thing in Germany in the 1930s. They knew the Nazis were bad. You could see it when they marched through and beat people up, but they didn't know the extent. All right. Now with the internet and social media that hatred is right out there, front and center and it numbs people.</p>
<p>Like this Kathy Griffin. I mean, do I think this is an evil person Kathy Griffin? No I don't. I just think that she is just so far gone because she lives on the internet that you know, she actually thought that she'd be celebrated doing what she did with the Trump picture.</p>
<p>So this social media on the internet all the time numbs people, typically younger people and makes hatred mainstream mainstreams it. I've seen the most vile stuff and I don't even go to these places, these sites. With once in a while somebody will send me something in connection with a newstory and I go <em>I can't believe it's a human being actually saying this stuff.</em> Children they attack. I mean anybody.</p>
<p>I mean, how sick and a lot of sick people and the internet gives them power because they can talk to other sick people. Because usually they were isolate. Lee Harvey Oswald was isolated. It was isolated.</p>
<p>All right. And he became madder and madder, not angrier but mad, mad. He went mad.</p>
<p>But he was an isolated guy. Today of Lee Harvey Oswald was around he would have had three or four thousand other Lee Harvey Oswalds talking to him. You know, if you read Killing Kennedy we take you through the madness that consumed Oswald. And then he finally killed President Kennedy. And the same thing with Hinckley and Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was isolated.</p>
<p>But now you've got three thousand people worse than you. And that's where this guy yesterday, he lived in these precincts and then decide to get the guns and go and kill Republicans. Awful.</p>
<p>Second big story of the day is the Mueller story and this is another example of hysterical ideologically driven coverage. So <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em> gets leaked. They say five people leaked to them. I believe it. I believe five separate people called up <em>The Washington Post</em> and said this: Mueller, Robert Mueller the special counsel appointed to investigate the Russian links, alleged Russian links to anybody including the Trump campaign is now expanded a little bit into whether President Trump tried to influence that situation.</p>
<p>That's the leak that came out. Is that a big story? No. Did anybody not think that Robert Mueller was going to take a look at that? Of course he's going to take a look at it. That's his job. He&rsquo;s a special prosecutor. If there is any air or gossip or anything like that, that president Trump may have tried to shut down somebody looking at General Flynn who he fired, you&rsquo;ve got to look at it. You&rsquo;ve got to look at it.</p>
<p>You can't just give a report to Congress and say <em>you know what, we didn't look at the Comey allegation that Trump was concerned about Flynn or try to influence Flynn. </em>Come on. As soon as he was appointed anybody with a brain knew that he was going to look at how Trump handled the Flynn situation top to bottom as Mueller should.</p>
<p>So then they said <em>Okay. We're going to call in Mike Rogers.</em> All right. The head of the National Security Agency and Daniel Coats to be interviewed. Daniel Coats is national security adviser. Now, they were in open testimony in front of the Senate committee under oath. All right. And they both said, Rogers this is what he said, this is under oath in front of the whole nation:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&ldquo;In the three years plus I've been director of the National Security Agency, I have never been directed to do anything I believed to be illegal immoral unethical or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection during the same period of service I do not ever recall feeling pressured to do so.&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>So that's what Rogers says under oath to the world. And that's what he's going to say to Mueller. So Mueller is going to have <em>well, what did the president say to you then?</em> And then Rogers will tell him. But if it was in any of these things illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate and it can't be because Roger has already testified under oath that it wasn't.</p>
<p>Okay. You get it? I know you do. You guys are smart. You wouldn't be taking the time to listen to this if you didn't care about your country and you weren't smart. This podcast isn&rsquo;t for stupid people.</p>
<p>So then MSNBC knocks off the aftermath of the shooting last night to lead with this story&ndash;<em>Oh, he's under criminal investigation. </em>The lady on CNN at 7 o&rsquo;clock, I thought she was going to fall off her chair &ndash;<em>Criminal investigation.</em> And I'm going, <em>everybody knew this would be a line of questioning that Robert Mueller and his assistants would take. Everybody knew that. </em>It doesn't take five leakers to <em>The Washington Post.</em></p>
<p>A criminal investigation? There's no way on earth that Robert Mueller can bring criminal charges against President Trump. He can't. All he can do is refer what he believes to have taken place in any way, shape or form to Congress and then Congress could, if they believe that there is criminal activity, write up articles of impeachment, as they did with Bill Clinton. That's how it works.</p>
<p>Was that explained? No. <em>Criminal investigation.</em></p>
<p>That's like saying, and this is how bad it is and this is what drives me crazy. That's like saying <em>if you are audited by the IRS you're under criminal investigation because if you did do something wrong or didn't pay taxes you're going to be charged to an audit of any American citizen puts them under criminal investigation. </em></p>
<p>Mueller himself, I think, we'll do an honest job. I do. I could be wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's out to get Donald Trump and his guys. Maybe. But to me, because everybody is going to look at every single word Mueller puts on paper, for his own legacy and his own reputation, which is a good one, he&rsquo;ll be fair.</p>
<p>And if Mike Rogers or Dan Coats contradicts what they said under oath, guess who has to get arrested? Mike Rogers and Dan Coats. Mueller will have to arrest them. Have to call in the FBI right on the spot<em>. Sorry guys. You said this under oath. Now you&rsquo;re telling me something different in private. You're under arrest.</em></p>
<p>So I don't think that's going to happen.</p>
<p>You know, there comes a point where, you know you say to yourself, I do anyway &ndash;<em>Is this country ever going to get back to being a place that's fair? Ever?</em> The answer could be no.</p>
<p>That's why I'm doing this, by the way. I don&rsquo;t need to do this. I think you all know that. But I'm so disgusted with the media and the hate Trump movement. Not because I love Donald Trump or anything like that. If Donald Trump does something wrong, you&rsquo;ll be the first to know. I'll tell you. And he knows it. Trump knows it.</p>
<p>But this is wrong. Morally wrong what's happening here. It's morally wrong. And so I'm going to use this forum and we're going to expand this forum. I&rsquo;m going to use the tweets. I'm going to use all of this stuff that I have at my disposal to fight the unfairness and the immorality of what's happening.</p>
<p>I'm going to do that. That's why I'm doing it. So everybody should know where I'm coming from.</p>
<p>All right now, here's something that that does not reflect well on Donald Trump.</p>
<p>The Senate had to vote to keep the Russian sanctions and make them law because they were afraid that Donald Trump was going to lessen the sanctions on Russia. So now we can't. President can't. Big message. I think it was 97 to 2 the vote. It's like Russia is bad. We're going to punish them with sanctions economically and we don't want a president to step in and take those sanctions off.</p>
<p>I would&rsquo;ve voted yes on that because I think Russia is bad as you remember with my interview with Donald Trump on Super Bowl Sunday, I said <em>hey, this guy's a killer.</em> And that made worldwide headlines. So much so that Putin said <em>I have to apologize to him.</em> But I&rsquo;m telling you, if I was sitting there in Vladivostok I'd have a poisoned dart in my neck. You know it.</p>
<p>Going forward and we're all praying for Congressman Scalise. I hope you are too. You know the guy is a good guy and he's in critical condition.</p>
<p>Maybe something will happen better or worse in the middle of the podcast or after the podcast. But right now as it stands, we're doing this a few hours before 7:00 p.m. Eastern when you see it.</p>
<p>You know prayers matter to me and I think that we all should be praying for him.</p>
<p>Alright, let&rsquo;s get to the mail and then we have some other interesting stuff for you.</p>
<p>This is from Leo Hockemeyer from Frisco, Texas. <em>Bill, </em><em>you've said several times that the hateful rhetoric from the left would eventually get somebody hurt, well it finally happened. This attack was certainly politically motivated, do you think that we'll eventually discover a deeper conspiracy?</em></p>
<p>No. I believe this man acted alone. You know we looked at the Lee Harvey Oswald thing as I mentioned before Leo, because there are millions of conspiracy theories about Oswald. We didn't find anything at all and we really looked, really hard and there wasn&rsquo;t anything there. Usually these things are what they appear to be a deranged lone guy.</p>
<p>Sandra Manfredi from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. <em>Mr. O, your descriptive adjectives during last evening's podcast were on point - this whole mess is "disgusting" "revolting" and they are "savages" the people doing these kinds of things. Went back to the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html" target="_blank">"Resistance" podcast </a>again; my opinion, one of your very best!</em></p>
<p>I appreciate that Sandra. I want to remind everybody that if you miss a podcast you can <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/blog?categoryID=25#month=5&amp;year=2017" target="_blank">access all of them</a>. All right. That's one of the perks of being a premium member. And we did do a <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html" target="_blank">resistance podcast on Tuesday</a>. It is now Thursday. If you did miss it, you might want to see it because it's totally different analysis than anybody's done. I haven&rsquo;t heard anybody do that.</p>
<p>Gertrude Mason from Grayville, Illinois. <em>Bill, just heard some disturbing news regarding </em><em>Special Counsel Mueller. It was reported he would charge Trump with obstruction.</em></p>
<p>Look at the reports about Mueller, Gertrude you can assume are false. Just assume no matter what you hear. They're false. Come here as you are and you'll get the truth about the Mueller investigation. But just assume what you hear on the media, what you read newspaper is false. There's an agenda. The left wing media wants Mueller to come up with some kind of criminal thing refer for impeachment. That's what they want and they're going to tilt, spin, lie, whatever to get that to happen.</p>
<p>Milton Cox in Olive Branch, Mississippi. <em>Do you think Mueller and his team of Democrat lawyers are going to be a problem for Trump? </em>They are already a problem. It's already a problem. It diverts his attention and I don't know what Donald Trump did or did not do.</p>
<p>I don't know.</p>
<p>But now whatever he did or did not do is going to be found out. Whether that is a problem in the long run, you know, I don't know. I haven't seen any evidence so far and they've been looking for it. In the short run it diverts his attention and he's steamed.</p>
<p>He tweeted today <em>it&rsquo;s a lot of fake news, witch hunt, </em>all of that. And he's angry. Look for somebody who's gone through this for 20 years it&rsquo;s been attack, after attack, after attack, I understand why he&rsquo;s angry. I'm angry about what happened to me. And that's why I think I sympathize with him so much.</p>
<p>Rosemarie Morowczynski. Nice Polish name Rosemarie in Chicago. <em>When they say Russia hacked us or interfere with 2016 elections what exactly did the Russians do? They did not change votes.</em></p>
<p>No. They didn't change votes. But they put out enough negative stuff about Hillary Clinton and her campaign to divert attention from what Mrs. Clinton was doing. It's almost like what's happening to Trump now the diversion of attention. So the hacking showing chaos in the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz saying bad things about Bernie Sanders and Podesta being a total jerk, which he is, that diverted attention away from any message, effective message, that Hillary Clinton might have had. So that's what they're looking at.</p>
<p>Jeanette McManus in Richmond Texas. <em>I think the No Spin News is getting better and better. I really appreciate Tuesday's news about the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html" target="_blank">resistance</a>. </em>Very good. Jeannette. <em>You explained what it is and where I can clearly understand what's going on. You&rsquo;re a marvelous professor.</em> Thank you. It&rsquo;s a compliment. <em>I feel like I'm in college again.</em> Yeah you could take that. This is a college course. It would be fair, unlike most college courses. And then Jeanette goes on to say <em>thanks for the pic of your adorable corgi. </em>Would you like to come over and brush her? The corgis will never ever get lost, ever because you just follow the fur.</p>
<p>Robert O'Hara in Hampton, New Hampshire. Nice town on the coast. <em>Bill, love the podcast. You suppose NBC wanted to have the interview with Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones so the masses will associate the right with Alex Jones.</em> We&rsquo;ll see. I mean one of the things that they're going to bring out heavily in the NBC interview is that President Trump talked to Jones and dealt with him and that Jones says White House credentials. It&rsquo;s as an organization.</p>
<p>So yeah. It&rsquo;s going to be there. No doubt about it, but it's reality. It's reality. Remember that. We'll see how much they emphasize that.</p>
<p>Gerald Klausner &nbsp;in Culver City, California. <em>I'm retired. Like the new format better than your show on Fox. Although, Talking Points are the best five minutes on TV. I'm glad to be a billoreilly.com premium member, but I don't miss your pinheaded guests.</em></p>
<p>I miss some of them. Going to have Laura Ingraham on shortly. We're suppose to have her on tomorrow, but she's on the air so we're going to push her back next week. Miller, we're going to try to get him on weekly. Bernie Goldberg will try to get on next week. You know those guys I like talking to them. But I understand we had some guests that just make people crazy. And I'm glad you like it.</p>
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<p>All right Danny. There you go<em>. And answer this question. What makes you angry?</em></p>
<p>Three things make me angry. Deceit. Lying and lying is tied into deceit.</p>
<p>All right. And betrayal. Betrayal.</p>
<p>I want to see more and more of that. Now if you and you are like my mother in her life, I don't think she was ever betrayed. And she was like a saint. But I want you to know, my mother's life, I knew it pretty well and I don't think she ever experienced betrayal. But in the Bible, in the New Testament the Judas story is prominent and everybody knows it. That was put there for a reason. Betrayal is the worst thing that another human being can do to you. I hope you've never experienced it. I hope. But most of us have. Most of us have. It makes me absolutely furious. Now, I can tell you I have never betrayed another human being. I've got a beef with you. I'm right up there with you. Right eye to eye with you. Don&rsquo;t stab people in the back. Don't try to get people hurt you know. I'll take care of you man to man or man to lady. But the betrayal factor is rising in this country and it is absolutely appalling.</p>
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<p>See you then.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-15T23:00:00ZBill O'Reilly's analysis on the situation in VirginiaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/Bill-OReillys-analysis-on-the-situation-in-Virginia/-603729970799540781.html2017-06-14T23:00:00Z2017-06-14T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for this Wednesday the 14th of June.</p>
<p>Bad day. Bad day.</p>
<p>I mean this shooting in Alexandria, Virginia. Very disturbing to me.</p>
<p>I predicted this would happen and I hate to be an oracle on this kind of violence but it's a political killing and no doubt about it in my mind. I looked at this analyze this shooter and this is a political murder. Not murder because guys are still in a hospital. But a political crime. Let me write it down real quick.</p>
<p>I'll give you the analysis. All right.</p>
<p>Alexandria, Virginia 7:00 a.m. this morning.</p>
<p>Bunch of Republicans practicing on a baseball field for the game tomorrow night softball game between Republicans and Democrats in the house for charity.</p>
<p>Sixty-six-year-old James Hodgkinson from Illinois.</p>
<p>All right. Shows up. He's got a rifle and pistol.</p>
<p>Hodgkinson apparently asks one of the players on the field.</p>
<p><em>Are these Democrats or Republicans practicing?</em> And the answer comes back <em>Republicans</em>.</p>
<p>Short time later, he opens fire. You saw it on TV. There's some video of the pop pop pop pop pop ten minute gun bell.</p>
<p>All right now. There are two plainclothes Capitol Hill police officers accompanying the majority whip Congressman Steve Scalise from Louisiana.</p>
<p>He is entitled to bodyguard's most congress people are not. So they are in plain clothes again opened fire on the gunman. Hodgkinson again 66 years old. And they have a shoot out. Both capital officers are wounded Hodgkinson is killed in the gun battle. You can imagine. It's going on for like 10 minutes.</p>
<p>So then the authorities show up and there is a lot of blood and they rush to the hospital. And four people were shot the two officers, a congressional aide, and a former congressional aide along with Congressman Scalise which makes five shot and the police killed Hodgkinson.</p>
<p>Okay. So then of course the FBI takes over the investigation because it's a federal crime and they find out quickly that Hodgkinson was a Trump hater because he has postings all over social media and he is a Bernie Sanders volunteer within moments of that being announced.</p>
<p>Sanders himself the senator comes out and condemns everything. It&rsquo;s not Sanders&rsquo; fault.</p>
<p>But this guy was a committed leftist. All right. Now I hate to say this but it's absolutely true and I'm going to state it for the record. I'm not going to base my analysis on it. But as will be stated if a Trump supporter had done this that would be the lead. That would be the lead on all the cable all the network news programs morning, programs tomorrow, everything. Because Hodgkinson is a leftist, it's noted but it's not the lead.</p>
<p>This very interesting soundbite this morning by Congressman Rodney Davis from Illinois who right away picked it up and said <em>look this is generated by political hatred. We have to stop this hatred.</em> Talked yesterday about the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html" target="_blank">resistance</a>. I understand the sound was a little low yesterday that's still posted and we fixed the sound. So if you didn't hear that go back and look at <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Sessions-in-Session;-What-on-Earth-is-The-Resistance/254543331253820331.html" target="_blank">my analysis of the resistance</a>. All right it's important.</p>
<p>So anyway Mr. Davis from Illinois goes on and he says <em>look if we're going to continue this, if we're going to continue the Trump hatred and then the backlash against that we're going to more violence. </em>And I said this months ago. That this was going to happen.</p>
<p>So now what? There's no other story adjacent to it other than analyzing the hatred on display which we do. We pointed out that Kathy Griffin&rsquo;s, the Bill Maher&rsquo;s on and on and on and on.</p>
<p>And there's some on the right but not nearly the extent of what it is on the left. It's not even close. When President Obama was in office.</p>
<p>Yeah. You had a crew that whatever he did they savaged them.</p>
<p>Nothing like this because this is organized. We'll get to that in a moment.</p>
<p>All right. A few hours later in San Francisco at a UPS facility south of the main city another shooter walks in, kills three people, wounds others and then he kills himself.</p>
<p>This is workplace violence. But imagine the rest of the world going <em>hey, land of the free, home of the brave.</em> And you know gun violence everywhere. It's not a second amendment issue. It's a freedom issue. All right. That's what people will never understand that we in America have more freedoms than any other country in the world.</p>
<p>And we do have the freedom to protect ourselves which we as you can be armed. Now Virginia where the congressional shooting took place is very easy to get any weapon you want to get. And you saw that a few years ago with Virginia Tech the solution to this is not banning guns or you know, most states have very, very tough gun laws.</p>
<p>The solution is lessening the hatred.</p>
<p>And that's not going to solve it because you're always going to have demented people. This guy Hodgkinson he is a nut. You don't drive in from Illinois and gun down innocent people if you're not totally demented. That being said, you know if he were alive you'd have to put him away for the rest of his life and probably execute him if somebody dies.</p>
<p>Okay so then the San Francisco thing happens. And you know you're just sitting there going <em>I love my country. I don't want my country to be smirched all over the world. </em>And certainly today is a day where that's happening.</p>
<p>Now let's talk about the Trump hatred. So we find out that there is a lawsuit that has been filed by 200 Democratic members of Congress against President Trump alleging that his continued ties to his business empire violate the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>All right. It's something about the Emoluments Clause. I'm not going to get into the lawsuit. It's bull. It's crap. It's not going to go anywhere but it's funded by groups that continue to try to destroy the president and anybody who treats him fairly. All right. And I'll mention those groups in a moment. But if 200 Democrats sign on to this lawsuit, don't get up there on CNN and MSNBC tonight and say <em>oh, we have to lessen the hatred.</em> Don't do that because you're lying. This is garbage. All right. Trump's a business person. All right. He has now handed his business interests over to his family. So you're going to try to find someplace where that's overlapped. That's just garbage. You hate him. You 200 Democratic members of Congress.</p>
<p>You want to hurt him no matter what he does.</p>
<p>And again I'm in the role of a Trump Defender. We discussed this yesterday, but this is just revolting This has never happened before in American history.</p>
<p>So now I don't think Trump's taking it seriously but he's got to defend it. And all of that. one of the worst is this guy Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut. He's the guy who faked his Vietnam stuff. He said <em>the litigation is necessary to force Trump to disclose the extent to which is companies are conducting business with foreign government entities.</em> What that means is this is a dodge to get Trump to put out his tax returns.</p>
<p>That's what this is all about. So again Blumenthal is lying.</p>
<p>All right just say it. It&rsquo;s disgusting.</p>
<p>Okay. So the groups behind this. The guy named David Brock, you might have heard the name. He's involved with a whole bunch of far left crazy progressive groups.</p>
<p>And he goes around and tries to knock out anybody with whom he disagrees. So he's a Hillary Clinton loyalist. Clinton knows about all this one of the reasons that I had a hard time even considering voting for Hillary Clinton was because she associates with guys like David Brock. I mean anybody would do that.</p>
<p>So <em>The Washington Post</em> is reporting that a number of groups of Brock&rsquo;s associated with have put together this bogus lawsuit. Two attorneys general, one in Washington, one in Maryland both very liberal states. Took it up. All right. Apparently the <em>Washington Free Beacon</em> newspaper and you ought to go to their website. They got a memo. All right. A copy of a private and confidential David Brock memo detailing liberal operatives plans to attack Trump using an organization called CREW, Media Matters, ShareBlue and American Bridge. The memo spoke of defeating Trump through impeachment, delegitimizing his presidency via a legal attack spearheaded by these groups who are funded a lot of them by George Soros. All right so now they have a memo that is saying we're going to disrupt. You know And to me it's just way out of control. Now I personally had to deal with this stuff. All right. And in the weeks to come this summer we're going to tell you exactly how and why it happened. And unfortunately, I didn't have anybody defending me, but I'll defend myself.</p>
<p>That's coming. Just giving you a little headline that is coming.</p>
<p>It's disgusting. Revolting. All right. It's un-American. And it just drives me crazy. These people are just savages. Okay.</p>
<p>Mueller said it was not a bogus story. I mean it was floating around that President Trump might replace Robert Mueller as the special counsel, but I didn't get into it because I knew I wasn't going to and I knew that the speculative nature of the story simply drives that Trump hatred up. Now I don't know what the president thinks about <span class="st">Mueller</span>. I have no idea. Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department. Trump had nothing to do with the appointment. In fact the point was made and Trump didn't even know about it until afterward. That's the way the system should work. So the Justice Department, they believe a special prosecutor is necessary. You might disagree. I might disagree. Certainly no evidence linking the president to Russia. But Mueller&rsquo;s there and he's a well-respected guy in Washington. Long record of good things. In fact, I heard and I think it's true that Mueller was under consideration to be the FBI chief by President Trump. So Mueller is not going to be removed at this juncture unless all hell breaks loose. So this story whipped into hysteria by the anti-Trump media was inconsequential. That's the best word. All right. And it was designed to create I guess controversy I guess you know but I didn't spend a lot of time on it because they knew it wasn't going to happen. And I don't want to waste your time.</p>
<p>Couple other stories in the news. Megyn Kelly old colleague of mine has a program on NBC on Sunday nights and she's going to interview this guy Alex Jones, who has said a lot of stuff that is just off the wall. One of the things he said is that the Sandy Hook murders of children in Connecticut never happened it was a bogus set up. All of that.</p>
<p>In my whole life, I would never consider covering that, ever. And I said that on TV a few months ago. Maybe two months ago I said <em>look we're not going to do this.</em> Again, it comes back to you and your time. We are not going to waste your time on this. If you want to believe some wild conspiracy, that's up to you. But I'm not going to go in and say it's not true because then I legitimize it. So that's where Megyn Kelly finds herself in a bit of a dilemma because some sponsors that we don't want to be associated with the program. All right. NBC is not going to worry about that so much. But the question of who you put on television particularly on an NBC magazine is a legitimate one is absolutely legitimate. And I said to <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Listen-to-Bill-and-Glenn-Beck-Talk-About-Alex-Jones/522911243564218557.html" target="_blank">Glenn Beck yesterday, and that's on our website</a>, if you want to have a conversation, I never would have covered that story. I never would have done that interview. You know will get good ratings. Maybe. Maybe there's a curiosity factor. I mean Megyn's program has not done well the first two weeks maybe this will give it a little pop. Nothing wrong with wanting good ratings, but you know, look the damage overrides the ratings pop for a week in my estimation because Americans will say <em>what are you doing?</em> You know there are a lot of cranks out. There a lot of people out there saying crazy stuff and we&rsquo;re going to have a show. Look Jerry Springer does that. That's what he does.</p>
<p>All right. And then if you want to watch Jerry Springer he's on the day you can watch him. But when you're a news person it's different because then, what you do reflects a little bit of your values. Now I assume Megyn who's a smart woman is going to go after him. Got to assume that's going to happen.</p>
<p>But you know he's not a legitimate news subject. That&rsquo;s my opinion. He's just not.</p>
<p>So anyway I <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Listen-to-Bill-and-Glenn-Beck-Talk-About-Alex-Jones/522911243564218557.html" target="_blank">talked to Beck about it yesterday</a> and they're all - I should mention this, the press that is defending Megyn Kelly on this including Beck, he wasn't defending her per se, but he was saying <em>look it's more legitimate to interview Jones because Jones is White House credentials his operation.</em></p>
<p>I forget the name of it, but apparently they got credentialed and Trump, I think did an interview with Jones from way down the line. So because Trump did it, then it's okay.</p>
<p>I don&rsquo;t buy that for a second. And I told him. I said <em>look I don't know anything about it, Beck. But I think that the Trump people tweaking the mainstream media, they're just tweaking him by giving credentials to this guy's outfit. </em>And he was a supporter. Jones was a supporter of Trump. So Trump talked to him. Again, probably not a good thing to do, but Trump wasn&rsquo;t president then. But he did give the credentials. Okay. That part of the story should be reported, but does that mean that you give the guy 15 minutes of air time.</p>
<p>I know I won&rsquo;t.</p>
<p>OK. So very bad day today. And I don't want to leave you in a depressed circumstance.</p>
<p>So we've had a lot of mail about my dog, the two dogs. I have two. But you're going to see one today. It's a corgi. If you're not familiar with the breed. The Queen of England has like 12 corgis I can guarantee you she's never walked one of them in her life. She has servants to do that.</p>
<p>Corgis are cute dogs. Let's take a look. The dog's name is Holly and the cutest dogs. But here's the downside. Loudest bark in the world, which is good actually. Even as I speak the crazy corgis barking might be able to hear it faintly because we have like walled off somewhere. And this dog sheds. You have no idea. And I didn't know that before I got the dog. So cute but just continually sheds. When I was a kid I had German Shepherd. German Shepherd shed twice. You know when summer came and winter came. There was shedding but this dog every hour on the hour. Anyway it's a nice dog. It really is a sweet dog. And I figured you'd want to know a little bit about Holly The Corgi Monster.</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s get to the mail.</p>
<p>Edmenster in Richmond Virginia. <em>I watched Jeff Sessions testimony in your tweets in real time, Bill. It was great commentary than by mistake I turned on MSNBC and Chuck Todd was interviewing some guests and I believe the Democrats have a new strategy is called self-impeachment.</em></p>
<p>Look. It's just garbage. It's just crap and pardon that word. I don't like that word but it's you know. What can I tell you.</p>
<p>John Hamilton in Maryville Tennessee. <em>O&rsquo;Reilly absolutely the best analysis of the session testimony bar none. The podcast just keeps getting better and better.</em> Hey, that's really kind of you to say. We had a few technical problems this week so I am glad. And again, if you missed yesterday was too low whatever. Go back. That's a good one. But thank you John.</p>
<p>Susan DiLorenzo in Park Ridge New Jersey. <em>I love the new podcast. I used to watch The Factor every night but I enjoy this more. Please continue same character going forward.</em></p>
<p>The reason that some people, I mean look TV is a big cannon, but I enjoy this too because I don't have commercial interruptions and I get a lot more freedom. I always had freedom. I have to be honest. Always had editorial freedom, but now I can spend what I want on when I want and all of that. And it's much more personal. This is me and you talking around a dinner table. All right that's what it is.</p>
<p>So it's a more personal forum and I like it.</p>
<p>I didn't know whether it was going to like it at first but I like it.</p>
<p>David Mast. <em>The resistance wants special treatment. That's a great observation, O&rsquo;Reilly. The resistance does not want free speech but selected speech and only laws they like.</em></p>
<p>It's true. I mean the resistance is a progressive driven anti-democratic movement. No doubt.</p>
<p>Clara Jacob lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. <em>Mr. O&rsquo;Reilly, we began to study the Civil War and I'm really interested in it. My dad's a single parent. He told me to watch you on the computer which I have. And now I have two questions. How old do you have to be to like <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168" target="_blank">Legends and Lies: The Civil War</a>?</em></p>
<p>Well, I think 9 to 99 and even if you're 102 you&rsquo;d probably liked like <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168" target="_blank">Legends and Lies: The Civil War.</a> It's easy to read, a lot of great pictures, illustrations and a really good overview of the Civil War.</p>
<p>Second question: <em>Do you know what city in America is the most historical overall?</em></p>
<p>I would say Boston because of the Revolutionary War and they preserved a lot of the sites like Paul Revere's house and the old North Church. So that whole area, that whole Boston area is like really steeped in history and they respect it. Philadelphia probably second and then Virginia the whole state because of the Civil War. Most of the battles fought in the Virginia area and of course you go up to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. So we're going to send you Legends and Lies, a signed copy, of the Civil War, Clara and I really appreciate you watching me with your dad</p>
<p>John Bourne, Wake Forest, North Carolina wraps it up for us. I bought my first <a href="http://www.billoreilly.com/site/rd?satype=1&amp;said=787&amp;pos=110&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbarshirt.com" target="_blank">High Bar</a> after your podcast tonight. Can't wait to receive it. Maybe when my family sees how good it looks on me they'll buy me another one for Father's Day. <a href="http://www.billoreilly.com/site/rd?satype=1&amp;said=787&amp;pos=110&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.highbarshirt.com" target="_blank">High Bar shirts</a> best in the world. They've been very loyal to us. There's an ad on billoreilly.com.com and can't do better. If you're looking for a good classy shirts.</p>
<p>And finally Sunday is Father's Day so you get them all the books. If Dad's really grumpy or something I'll keep them out of your face for months if he reads all the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/c/The-Killing-Series/1/174.html" target="_blank">Killing books</a>, <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Old-School/Old-School/48426.html" target="_blank">Old School: Life in the Sane Lane</a> and <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/LL-Companion-Volumes/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html?dispid=168" target="_blank">Legends and Lies: The Civil War</a>.</p>
<p>Also, we have Father's Day memberships. If you know a dad or your dad or granddad is not a member of billoreilly.com sign him up.</p>
<p>Get him the <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Gift-Memberships/One-Year-Premium-GIFT-Membership---GIFT-CERTIFICATE---with-your-choice-of-free-gift/18438.html?dispid=210" target="_blank">gift membership</a>. Then you get a free book to boot and you can read it or give it to him or do whatever you want with it.</p>
<p>And then the ultimate is the show's Miller and I. See everybody at the <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/1500526FE5EB4F49" target="_blank">Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore on the 22nd Friday</a> night of September. <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0D0052779D25DB9A" target="_blank">Amalie Arena Tampa the next day, Saturday September 23rd</a> and then, we'll be at <a href="https://www.axs.com/events/333327/bill-o-reilly-dennis-miller-tickets?skin=colosseum" target="_blank">Caesar's Palace in Vegas on December 15th</a>. Good early Christmas present or Father's Day present as I said. And I'm at the <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0900527DA80870FC" target="_blank">Honda Center Saturday December 16th</a> and if you give dad or granddad tickets to the shows they'll never forget it their whole lives. So anyway.</p>
<p>Thanks for being premium members. We'll see you tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-14T23:00:00ZIn-depth on the Sessions testimony; What on Earth isBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/In-depth-on-the-Sessions-testimony;-What-on-Earth-is/51120316814122704.html2017-06-13T23:00:00Z2017-06-13T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News. And I have to apologize for yesterday we had technical problems. And since I can barely put gasoline in my car I'm useless when the technical problems occur. So you know there was an intrusion of some kind into the recording of this podcast newscast and we couldn't fix it. So you got a little bit of Miller we're going to have Miller today.</p>
<p>We're going to run the whole thing it's about 10 minutes it's good. But I really felt badly because yesterday I was really good. So I'll try to make this one better.</p>
<p>We have a whole bunch of stuff going on. And we're going to start with sessions.</p>
<p>My tweets are listed on the website. I tweeted the same thing that I did with Comey testimony on Thursday. I did with Sessions today. OK.</p>
<p>So it was nothing.</p>
<p>It really was nothing. You know he's a very disciplined guy not flamboyant.</p>
<p>He's not like Comey was provocative because he wanted to get a point across that President Trump did the wrong thing by firing him and I guess Comey thinks that Trump is incompetent. I don't know. Says he didn't have anything like that.</p>
<p>He his agenda was to protect himself. All right.</p>
<p>And he did.</p>
<p>I mean they didn't lay a glove on him the most aggressive was his Kamala Harris the senator from California who is very bright, by the way. But it came back to the whole thing.</p>
<p><em>Tell us what the president said to you.</em> And Sessions kept going <em>I'm not going to tell you that. Nobody will. None of the cabinet members will because there's a privacy issue. If the president says go ahead, tell about all the conversations then we could but that's never going to happen.</em></p>
<p>And one Republican, I forget who it was, made the point I think it was a Republican Senator from Oklahoma. Said&nbsp;<em>Look when we had the Attorney General Holder up here in a you know, a scandal that got a border patrol agent killed the Fast and Furious gun smuggling. He wouldn't answer anything.</em></p>
<p><em>He wouldn't answer anything that what he said to President Obama, he wouldn't give his documents, we had to hold him in contempt of Congress.</em> So you know this, <em>well you won't tell us what Trump said to you and this is so bad.</em></p>
<p>I mean the Democrats had no answer to that.</p>
<p>So it was a hate Trump fest that didn't really work. Now it's going to be amusing and I'm probably not going to watch much of it on cable news tonight.</p>
<p>I can tell you that Trump supporters used to say it was a nothing situation. All right.</p>
<p>And it's true. It was. They didn't touch sessions. All right. Nothing there.</p>
<p>And the Trump haters the anti-Trump people will say &ldquo;oh, they're hiding something,&rdquo; but Cotton the Senator from Arkansas made the strongest point. He said <em>After six months of this committee the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating not one shred of evidence not one fact linking the Trump campaign or the Trump President elect crew to the Russians.</em></p>
<p>Believe me ladies and gentlemen I've been in this business for forty-two years.</p>
<p>If something had happened that would have surfaced by now. There&rsquo;s nothing.</p>
<p>Yet the Trump haters want to impeach him and they want to find something. They're not going to stop because it diverts the president away from doing business of the nation and cast aspersions on his character. So that keeps the story alive as long as they can keep it alive. But I'll tell you what.</p>
<p>You know I watch the Sessions thing today and I went why, why do they bother. Sessions came in.</p>
<p>He recused himself.</p>
<p>There was no scandal. He made it very clear that the reason he wanted Comey out of there and Sessions did and so did Rod Rosenstein the Deputy Attorney General because the Clinton e-mail investigation and he said Comey botched it and we didn't have confidence in him. You know that that was the reason. It didn&rsquo;t have anything to do with Russia.</p>
<p>Maybe it had to do with President Trump firing Comey. Russia could, but not Sessions and the Assistant Attorney General they were basing it on Comey&rsquo;s actions leading up to Russia and I believe it.</p>
<p>I believe it.</p>
<p>I mean although to be honest and I am always with you, there is pressure put upon all cabinet members to conform to President Trump's vision.</p>
<p>Same thing with President Obama. Same thing with President Bush the youngers. Same thing with Bill Clinton. You know there's pressure, which is why the Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Comey don't call the Hillary e-mail investigation an &ldquo;investigation&rdquo; calling it a matter. That's the pressure.</p>
<p>Moving ahead. I don't expect that this Russian thing, it&rsquo;s petering out, but it's interesting all the networks covered Sessions today and they lost millions of viewers because you couldn't really sit there for more than 10-15 minutes. You know, you're out of it. The hardcore news junkies yes, but not the casual viewers, but I think that after this the network executives are going to say <em>you know what</em>, <em>unless they come up with something startling We're out of this business</em>. Cable stuff, you know, what else is cable going to talk about? What else is cable news is going to talk about. They have nothing else to talk about. I don't see anything on the sheet that I have of any interest at all.</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>It's a very fallow. Word of the day. F A L L O W news time right now. So what going on.</p>
<p>Summer is starting. It's 95 degrees here in New York City. Always a delight. See if it's 95 in Arizona it's a lot of fresh air as a lot of open space.</p>
<p>Here, 16 million people in the New York metropolitan area. 16 million and most of them are in a bad mood when it gets hot.</p>
<p>All right. Now I want to talk about I talked about this yesterday in the podcast but since the podcast was not usable I have to do it again. But I want to do it again. Here's what's going to happen now.</p>
<p>Even the really really committed zealots to destroying the Trump administration and they are all over the media. And now there are groups that are financing things like suing the president. We'll talk more about that tomorrow, for anything and everything even these people are going to say all right we need to change tactics and the tactics are going to head into the quote unquote resistance.</p>
<p>The resistance is all right, you may have heard that. Hillary Clinton proclaimed recently she's part of the resistance. Now that is an interesting overtone, that word, because during World War II the resistance to Germany was all throughout Europe. The resistance fighter was in Greece in the Balkans, in France it was always known as the resistance. No accident that this is the word being used to oppose any and all Trump policies and himself. The resistance. So what is resisted. What are they resisting?</p>
<p>First of all, they're resisting you the American voter not just Trump voters but all voters. Because they are resisting accepting the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. These people in the resistance do not accept what the American people did on Election Day. They're resisting the process. The process of voting. Number one. Number two, they are resisting policies. Climate change is huge. Huge. Very emotional.</p>
<p>And because President Trump isn't buying into the PC version of climate change, they hate him. It&rsquo;s a resisting act and they're resisting any changes to the gains that the politically correct movement have made. So Trump wants to roll that back. See the PC culture and if you read <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Old-School/Old-School/48426.html" target="_blank">Old School Life in the Sane Lane</a> that's what the book's about the PC culture has made tremendous strides in this country. Typically on college campuses and even in high schools and of course in the media, which is about the most politically correct thing you could possibly be. You know you go out of the orthodoxy and you're going to get attacked. I mean I'd put up with that for more than 20 years. And finally, the organizations allied against me, attacked the sponsorship and for various reasons and that will unfold in the months to come.</p>
<p>We took attack that didn't work, but the PC crowd is now looking for anybody that wants to roll back this insanity that we have in America. OK. That's number two.</p>
<p>Number three the resistance is against any kind of religious activity in the public eye.</p>
<p>Saw that with Bernie Sanders, you know he's grilling somebody the other day about their Christian beliefs. The man's Christian beliefs and it was disturbing. It was disturbing.</p>
<p>Open borders if you oppose open borders, which is essentially what the Democratic platform. Democratic platform is basically look the other way.</p>
<p>Of the 11 million already here give them citizenship <em>just give it to them</em>. And on the border you know, <em>we don't want a wall. We don't really want tough interdiction. They're poor people. Let them come in. </em></p>
<p>Open borders, if you resist that if you the American citizen are opposed to that, then the resistance is after you. This is a provocative. The resistance is against equal treatment for all Americans.</p>
<p>Think about that. The resistance the anti-Trump resistance is against equal treatment for all Americans. What did they want special treatment for certain groups. Special treatment. Not equal treatment. Special treatment. Now, I'm going to get into that in a little while.</p>
<p>I want you just think about that. But you know there are certain Americans who get things that other Americans don't get.</p>
<p>All right. Some of that's justified. Children who live in poverty. Got to help them. Some of it's not justified, but if you're in a specific group that's designated for special treatment. That's what the resistance wants. If you oppose that, you're the enemy.</p>
<p>Capitalism the resistance doesn't really like it.</p>
<p>All right. They want the government to control the economy.</p>
<p>And Trump&rsquo;s basic unfettered capitalism is <span>abhorrent</span>&nbsp;to them. And you're resisting.</p>
<p>And finally, Americans who generally support the police the resistance despises that the police are the oppressors in their eyes. They oppress. They don't protect and defend. They actively go out and oppress certain groups like drug dealers in the inner city. Open air on the sidewalk selling heroin. They're oppressed because when they're arrested they're usually people of color and they get harsh sentences in many place. That's oppression for the resistance. So the resistance is much more than <em>we hate Trump</em>. That's what allies them together, but it's a huge agenda.</p>
<p>And these people have damaged this country dramatically and they have a lot of money.</p>
<p>George Soros everybody, <em>oh George Soros</em>, just the fact that him and a bunch of other people like him are donating hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that attack, attack, attack is a frightening thing.</p>
<p>And it&rsquo;s happening.</p>
<p>OK so yesterday I talked to Miller who is out there in Santa Barbara California plenty of resistance people out there and I did bring the resistance up to him.</p>
<p>Let's roll that now.</p>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">So Miller yesterday on the billoreilly.com No Spin News I talked about the resistance to Donald Trump is now an organized deal like World War II. The resistance in France against the Nazis. What do you think about that? Are you surrounded out there in Santa Barbara by the resistance fighters?</div>
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<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Bill, you know what I've told in the past, Billy, I stay in the compound. Occasionally, I put an incognito outfit on run out of bonds get some Mint Milano's. Then, back inside the gate. So I'm not surrounded by anybody but security cameras.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">But as far as the resistance goes I used to find it a reflexive resistance used to be nearly irksome to me, but I do think it's now become darker, unhinged. We live in the era of violent pacifists malevolent do-gooders. There's a lot of people out there who think they're are good people who now quite frankly are more unhinged in a tater cellar door and a Cat 5 hurricane and I'll tell you what, the reason Trump&rsquo;s infrastructure bill will go through and he'll improve these bridges because if he's re-elected the infrastructure will be jumping off bridges to the degree that they need to have them reinforced at this point.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">And it can happen. You know with the blow up on the Russian deal that that's not going to get any traction.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">I know nothing. What's next though? They're going to say he's, I was thinking well, what will they go after now that even Chris Matthew&rsquo;s deemed the Russian collusion thing to be dead. I thought well, maybe they'll start saying he's an ISIS fighter and then I thought, nah, they can't say Trump's an ISIS fighter then they'd have to give him a complete pass.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Well I think what's next is they're going to Trump up something pardon upon about his business dealings and you saw that with the lawsuit filed in Maryland and D.C. against his hotels some Russians stayed there. But none of that is going to get traction. And it's also going to make more people inclined to vote for Donald Trump. So either way they driving people in the middle and independents over to Trump's camp, but Trump has to deliver on the tax cut and he has to deliver on health care. I predict.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Well, Billy I think it's the death of polling.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">You think it&rsquo;s the death of what?</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Polling. P O L L I N G.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">I don't think people, listen if you're sitting at home now at dinner and one of these people calls and says &ldquo;Who are you going to vote for?&rdquo; When you see stuff like Lois Lerner, when you see stuff like they're tapping people and outing them, then is anybody going to give their honest opinion? Honest to God, I think whatever Trump does, if he decides to run again and I'm not convinced he will. But Pence will run. If anybody calls and ask you if you're voting for them in the stratified climbs we live in and you say yes I am. You're nuts. Everybody should just zip it. Say what the zealot in front of you wants to say. And then when you get to the Australian ballot four years hence and you're behind a shower curtain in a booth voting secretly people do their thing and guess what. I don't think they're nearly, nearly as upset with Trump as people like Jake Tapper are.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Now, what did you think of the Tony Awards where Cynthia Nixon who starred in Killing Reagan is Nancy Reagan.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">You know she wasn&rsquo;t a big fan of mine when I went down to the set, you know I felt a cool wind blowing on me.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">I can imagine.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">She's part of the resistance and she wants everyone to resist. I say that if Donald Trump went out with the loaves and fishes and just fed everybody a free buffet meal. Still the resistance. Somebody would get food poisoning, Miller. Somebody would.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">They would accuse him of mercury poisoning and celiac disease enhancement. Let's face facts, you know that's one thing about Trump, I talked to somebody who knows Trump and I am not trying to act cool. I know one guy who knows Trump because he was in business with him for a while and he told me that he talks to Trump on a regular basis. And I honest to God Billy, I don't know if he thrives on it, for his wife and kids he probably wishes it was a little easier. And I know people say <em>well, he wants to be liked</em>, I don't know about that. I think he loves winding them up. I think half the stuff he does on Twitter is just to wind them up. And I don't think he's going to fold in there for all this resistance. I think in a weird way it's like a backdraft for him. When there is certain people in the intelligentsia and the literati who tear him a new one. He thinks I must be doing something right because that person's a reverse arbiter for me. I use them to determine how I should feel because I don't think they're doing right. And all these people who are stabbing people on stage at the Joe Pop Festival and people who are beheading people on video like Daniel Pearl and ISIS they think that's playing. It might be playing with their echo chamber but I'm telling you out in the hinterland I think there's a bunch of people who are loath to say anything because they don't want their day to day life upset. We're clocking that and saying these people have gone nuts.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">And guess what. I think they're going to vote for him again.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Well, I mean it extends to me because I've known him for 30 years and I know, I don't know if he intentionally wants to cause trouble but he likes the action. He likes the act. So he gets bored easily. So if he can throw a hand grenade in there and boom it blows up and there's action as long as don't come back and hurt him he's fine with it.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">But here's an interesting point me and I said this again yesterday on the podcast analyzing Trump is harder for me. Now because in the beginning when he said something dopey I'd say you know he did something dopey and isn't done like the John McCain comment about you know he likes people who don't get captured. I just gave it to him. Now I feel sorry for him. Now the press reportage is so dishonest the hatred so over-the-top the vitriol, as you pointed out at the beginning of this conversation is disgusting.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Now when I see something my instinct is to blow it up and to almost take his side. Now I resist. I'm part of the resistance of not being a fair analyst, but it's hard. My sympathies say this guy, they're not going to like anything he does. So it's my job to try to put stuff into perspective. So in that sense Trump is like winning the journalistic war with the few of us who want to be fair.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Yeah but I think fairness dictates that an ark stance on the outside of the far end of the dialogue is needed it's not always in the middle.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">If somebody is going to do a play in Central Park where they have a man dressed as president Trump is assassinated like Julius Caesar with open stab wounds on him and he lays down in front of him down the middle is not saying well maybe they made it to the stab wounds too obvious. No, no that's just crazy. They've gone a little crazy. And nobody does anybody favors by not delineating. That is crazy. It's it's gone like I said from irksome to a bit unhinged and it's moving towards violent. And I think everybody on both sides of this and I don't know why Obama why people limbo, why everybody just doesn't step up meet in the middle and go <em>hey, hey, hey! we've got to cool out this whole</em>..<em> we can't elect a guy for 30 to 40 days and then have it the coin of the realm be killing him. </em>You know it&rsquo;s crazy.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">They are incapable of doing that. They hate him so much.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">I want to remind everybody that Father's Day is Sunday. Miller is a good dad. I can attest to that. I've seen it with my own eyes. All right. And we have the best Father's Day gifts on the planet. That is the Miller/O&rsquo;Rilley shows in <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1500526FE5EB4F49" target="_blank">Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore on September 22nd</a>. <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0D0052779D25DB9A" target="_blank">Tampa Florida Amelia Arena in Tampa</a> the next night Saturday September 23rd. <a href="https://www.axs.com/events/333327/bill-o-reilly-dennis-miller-tickets?skin=colosseum" target="_blank">Caesar's Palace in Vegas</a> always a blast always a sell out on December 15th and <a href="https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/0900527DA80870FC" target="_blank">Anaheim, California the big Honda Center</a> going to be a great show there on Saturday December 16th. We'll link you right over to the box office is all you got to do is go to where our a little click thing is on billoreilly.com. Hey Miller thanks for checking in with us.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">We appreciate it.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">And Billy, you mean click? C L I C K. Not C L I Q U E. Because you and I are not cliquish.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Anybody can come and they'll have a good evening of entertaining.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">They will Miller. When we do the Q&amp;A, it's unrehearsed and nobody knows what's going to happen and it's a lifetime experience.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">Dennis Miller everybody.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 30px;">All right Bill good to talk to you. Bye bye.</div>
<p>OK. There is Miller and once again I hope you guys can come see us in the four shows that remain this year.</p>
<p>All right let's go to the mail Judith Bunker in&nbsp;<span class="st">Apopka</span>, Florida. <em>Trump should never testify be jumping into a survivors is no reason to give them more fuel and he should stop tweeting.</em> <br /><br />The president is in no danger of being called to testify about anything. He said he would but there's not an opinion of anything to get him in there.</p>
<p>Donna Green in Paulsboro, Washington.<em> Bill My parents have been listening to you for years. They have an anniversary coming up June 29, 2017. There 65 wedding anniversary a mention would make their day. </em></p>
<p>Well, Don and Sue Greene in Paulsboro, Washington, congratulations. It's early but I&rsquo;d forget it. You know if I didn't mention it now.</p>
<p>Catena. Interesting name Catena Bryant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. <em>Bill, I'm confused a month or so ago James Comey testified to us, no interference of the investigation into the Russian collusion. But now he says he was intimidated by Trump. </em></p>
<p>The Comey testimony was purely from a personal point of view. He was trying to save his personal reputation. That's what it was. It wasn&rsquo;t based on any facts. It wasn&rsquo;t based on anything that's going to carry further and he got himself in a lot of trouble as we all know.</p>
<p>Robert Burgum from New Glarus Wisconsin points out. <em>Mr. Comey leaked info in his testimony can he be prosecuted? </em></p>
<p>No. You can only be prosecuted from leaking classified information. James Comey his notes were not classified because nobody knew about them. He wrote them on FBI machines. He violated ethics. That's not a criminal offense.</p>
<p>Gregory Kavanagh Litchfield in New Hampshire. <em>How would we know what Comey wrote in his notes about prison and Trump was truthful? </em></p>
<p>How would we know? There was testimony today by Sessions.</p>
<p>On a couple of Comey matters. One that Comey insinuated that right after he left the private meeting with President Trump on Valentine's Day where Flynn was brought up he informed Comey that he felt uncomfortable. Comey said it wasn&rsquo;t right after, it was the next day.</p>
<p>So I think there's little hints that the notes that he wrote to himself and shared with his FBI crew were kind of self-serving.</p>
<p><em>Bill, love the podcast. Now that you are using the power of the net and Twitter, it seems you may have change your mind about the machines. What say you? </em></p>
<p>Look I am. When I tweeted and I mentioned this, when I tweeted about Comey more than 3 million people were reading that including the sons of Donald Trump apparently who re-tweeted my stuff. It&rsquo;s a powerful agent. It is. And I know I'm bringing you me now through the machines and I have total freedom here. So that is a very, very good thing. The addictive nature of the machines got to be watched, particularly with the kids.</p>
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<p>John Kimmel in Lansdale Pennsylvania. <em>Bill, I have not been watching or listening to any mainstream news outlets since the second term of the Obama days. I did however capture news Mixmax interview earlier this evening on YouTube. I also joined up as billoreilly.com premium member minutes ago. I finally thought to myself &ldquo;Hey Bill always gives a straightforward truth. So I might as we'll hear it.&rdquo; </em></p>
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<p>We'll see you again tomorrow.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-13T23:00:00ZO'Reilly Goes In-Depth, Breaks Down Comey's TestimonyBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-Goes-In-Depth-Breaks-Down-Comeys-Testimony/-588617991140439015.html2017-06-08T22:57:00Z2017-06-08T22:57:00Z<p><em>Dennis Miller's appearance on the podcast has been postponed until Monday, June 12th.&nbsp;</em><br /><br />Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News Podcast, whatever you want to call it. All about the president and James Comey tonight and we'll set this up for you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I <a href="https://twitter.com/billoreilly" target="_blank">tweeted</a> live during the testimony in front of the Senate committee today and about 3 million people heard those tweets or read those tweets. Amazing. Three million people, including Donald Trump Jr., who retweeted some of the stuff that I was saying. So the power of this whole Internet thing is just amazing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think we had the best analysis. Everybody picked up on my major point, which was that Comey himself, James Comey himself, is now in huge trouble. This is an amazing turn. And when it happened, the senators had no blankin' idea what just happened. And it's all about the former director of the FBI, while he was in that office, leaking privileged conversations to The New York Times.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When I heard that I was stunned. And the senator who he told it to just...nothing. And the other senators didn't even follow up and I went what? What? Are you kidding me?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the best way to do this analysis is to go through it step by step on my <a href="https://twitter.com/billoreilly" target="_blank">tweets</a>. We have also put them on the website here. So if it gets a little complicated you can go back and read them. And this is live time. I did these tweets as the testimony was unfolding. OK.</p>
<p>But the headline is not about President Trump, it's about James Comey. Overarch on it: Trump didn't get hurt today. There were some things that we already knew that are not good for him. But there was no new revelation that could bump him into a danger zone. So there's no impeachment and there's no crime and nothing like that. All right. So let's start.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In the beginning, Senator Mark Warner, who is a Democrat who despises Donald Trump, he tried to frame the whole conversation about contacts between the Trump people and the Russians. That was phony from the very beginning. It's not about contacts, which are perfectly legal. It's about collusion, alleged collusion that some people in the Trump campaign helped the Russians undermine Hillary Clinton.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Warner immediately sets a dishonest tone, but it didn't go anywhere. And Warner was a cipher. I mean, it didn't go anywhere. OK.</p>
<p>So then Comey opens up his presentation by saying that he was confused about why he was fired but he takes the president's word that it was because of the Russian investigation. OK. Now, I believe what Comey was saying, generally speaking. I don't know about the loyalty stuff. That could could be out of context and the president's lawyer says Trump never said anything about loyalty to Comey. So I don't know. But generally speaking it looked to me like Comey was telling the truth about facts. Once he got into opinion, it doesn't matter, right? But I think Comey had credibility. I don't think he got up there and lied.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he said he's confused because Trump was telling Comey he was doing a good job. Trump says that about everybody. I've known the man for 30 years, he must have told me a thousand times how good I was on TV until I criticized him and then he told me I should see a psychiatrist. It's just the way he is. It's just who he is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So then Comey got a little nasty when he said that Trump lied, and he used the word, lie. The President "lied" when he said the FBI was not being run efficiently, and Comey was angry about that. But that sounded like a very honest statement on Comey's part because Trump did say that, that the FBI was in kind of chaos, and he took great exception.&nbsp; But it set up the fact that Comey has no love for Donald Trump. I think everybody knows that at this point.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then a Republican who&rsquo;s friendly to the president, Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina, he then started to quiz Comey and get him on the record. So the big thing was: <em>Did you tell the president three times he was not under investigation?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the answer that Comey gave was <em>yes</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Trump told the truth. Comey told him three times he wasn&rsquo;t under investigation in the Russian concern, and that&rsquo;s true. So that&rsquo;s big for the president. It bolsters his credibility.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then Burr said <em>what was the intent about you being told by President Trump to go easy on Flynn? I hope we can put this behind us. I hope</em>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was brought out by a couple of senators that words &ldquo;I hope&rdquo; are not the same as &ldquo;you better do it.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Comey insinuated that there was more than a hope, that there was like, <em>hey, you better do this. </em>But again, that&rsquo;s his opinion. <em>&nbsp;</em>It&rsquo;s his opinion. I don&rsquo;t know. I&rsquo;m not there. I don&rsquo;t know whether Trump was putting the arm on him. I don&rsquo;t know. But the records show, and Comey reinforced the record, that Trump used the words &ldquo;<em>I hope we can put this matter to rest because Flynn is already destroyed. We fired him, he&rsquo;s a good guy, I don&rsquo;t want to see him suffer more</em>.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, so it wasn&rsquo;t <em>you better dump this investigation. </em>It was a very narrow thing about Flynn. And everybody has testified under oath that Trump did not interfere in the so-called Russia investigation. Comey said it, all the guys yesterday said it, the intel chiefs, so that&rsquo;s that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, so then Comey went on to say that in his experience, the Trump conversation was not unique. Other attorney generals, i.e. Loretta Lynch under President Obama, also commented on investigations, i.e. the Hillary Clinton email thing. Because Lynch ordered, not hoped, ordered Comey to refer to the email situation as a &ldquo;matter,&rdquo; not an investigation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That gives President Trump a little comfort because the Obama administration did the same thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Oh, don&rsquo;t call the Hillary Clinton email thing an investigation. Call it a &ldquo;matter.&rdquo;</em> This is the attorney general ordering her subordinate, James Comey, to do that. That was pretty big, I thought. Fascinating.</p>
<p>So then it gets good. Comey then says, <em>all right, after I spoke to the president about General Flynn, I was disturbed</em>.This is one of Comey&rsquo;s favorite words. <em>I was disturbed, so I went back and I wrote memos about it, about our conversations.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>So is a classic CYA, they call it &ldquo;contemporaneously.&rdquo;&nbsp; You have a conversation, you&rsquo;re a government official, you&rsquo;re a little shaky about it, you go back and write a memo about it, you put it in your drawer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But Comey talked about this with his crew, with his FBI advisory crew, his second and third in command. They decided that there really wasn&rsquo;t that much there to take it to the attorney general or to make it official that Trump made a mistake. And Trump did make a mistake.</p>
<p>Trump made two mistakes. He met in private with Comey, huge mistake. And he did say to Comey, I believe, <em>you know, can&rsquo;t we back off Flynn a little bit? </em>But I don&rsquo;t know what the intent was. Those are two big mistakes the president made.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So then, all right, they put the memo away. Then it gets to be even more interesting. So Comey says he believed that he could have stayed on as FBI chief if he were more accommodating to President Trump. Here&rsquo;s where the loyalty thing comes in.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Trump obviously wanted Comey to tell him what was going on in the Russia investigation vis-&agrave;-vis Flynn and himself. And Comey was reticent to do that. That&rsquo;s where this loyalty thing comes in. It&rsquo;s another murky thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Comey felt that he was being offered his job as FBI chief to continue if he played along with Trump. But that&rsquo;s speculation. That&rsquo;s speculation. Nothing was actually even said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I know Trump a lot. He&rsquo;s not that nuanced a guy. I&rsquo;m just telling you this for your own information. He doesn&rsquo;t really&hellip;you know, but that&rsquo;s what Comey says.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, now then Comey does something really, really fascinating. He says that he believed it was a quid pro quo. However, there aren&rsquo;t any more quid pro quo conversations. Now if you make an offer to somebody that you can stay in a big, high profile job if that person does something for you, you just don&rsquo;t drop it. It continues. But there wasn&rsquo;t anything else. So again, interpretation&hellip;it wasn&rsquo;t like Trump was calling him every day, very few.</p>
<p>Then Comey says that&hellip;some of the senators got into the press&hellip;Comey says the New York Times wrote a couple articles that weren&rsquo;t true. Is anybody surprised? Anybody surprised at that? That&rsquo;s what fake news is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But then Comey said <em>I, as the FBI director, couldn&rsquo;t refute the article.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>That&rsquo;s not true. He absolutely could have refuted it. That&rsquo;s when I started to get a little nervous about Comey. Because if Comey sees an article in the New York Times about classified information that&rsquo;s false, as he said under oath today, the Times article was false, he can absolutely issue a statement saying <em>that&rsquo;s not true. </em>But he didn&rsquo;t. It made Trump look bad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I know it and Trump knows that Comey could have done that but didn&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s big.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Comey says that throughout this whole thing he was stunned. I don&rsquo;t believe that for a second. He might have been stunned at the initial closed door meeting when Trump said <em>maybe go light on Flynn. </em>Yeah, that might have taken him aback. But he didn&rsquo;t stay stunned, so let&rsquo;s not overdo it here.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then he talks about Trump. He says Trump was frustrated by the emphasis on Russia. He wanted the FBI to clear his name publicly. Any president would. It makes sense. If you were president and you were getting hammered every day on cable news and in the New York Times and Washington Post about Russia, you&rsquo;d want somebody to step up and say <em>look, Trump&rsquo;s not involved with this.</em> Of course you would.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then Comey says he wasn&rsquo;t stronger on the Flynn thing because he didn&rsquo;t want to alienate the president, blah, blah, blah. This is bureaucratic speak. It&rsquo;s probably true. Comey wanted to keep his job so he said <em>I&rsquo;m not going to go antagonize the guy.</em></p>
<p>Marco Rubio was good. Rubio comes on and says <em>look, did Trump want to know anything about the Russia investigation? Did he want to know anything?</em></p>
<p>Good question. Right? Senator Rubio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then Comey says <em>yeah. He said that if anybody of my satellite people, </em>which means not only people working for him officially, but people in the mix, <em>did anything wrong, he wanted to know about it. He wanted it to come out.</em> That helps President Trump, does it not?&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that crushed CNN and MSNBC. That crushed them. The cover-up then disappears on Comey&rsquo;s statement to Senator Rubio.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then he reiterated that he told Trump he wasn&rsquo;t under investigation three times to Rubio. He says he wanted to reassure Mr. Trump that the FBI wasn&rsquo;t his enemy. That makes sense.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then Wyden comes on&mdash;who doesn&rsquo;t like Trump&mdash;the Democratic senator from Oregon. Wyden says, as a signal to Comey, <em>I think your firing was &ldquo;an abuse of presidential power.&rdquo;</em> That&rsquo;s a signal to Comey that <em>I&rsquo;m sympathetic to you.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>So then Comey says that <em>he was upset about certain allegations</em>. This was unnecessary for the FBI director to say. There is a smear campaign in Europe about Donald Trump and what he allegedly did in Russia at one time. It&rsquo;s smear, it&rsquo;s garbage, all of us in the media who are responsible didn&rsquo;t report it, didn&rsquo;t mention it because it&rsquo;s really smearing stuff. Comey mentions it, he says that Trump was really upset about this, as he should have been, and he wanted to know who&rsquo;s putting it out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>These are legitimate questions any president would ask the FBI director.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That was interesting that Wyden got into that, and it got by fast. It wasn&rsquo;t a lot.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, now we go to the headline of the whole day. Comey then says, really without being prompted, <em>I was afraid that my side of the story wasn&rsquo;t going to be told after I was fired. So I leaked my memo about a privileged conversation the president.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>Remember, executive privilege extends to all government officials that deal with it. So when you talk to a president in a working capacity, that could be a privileged conversation. You don&rsquo;t just run out of the Oval Office and tell everybody about it. I mean, there&rsquo;s an ethical responsibility. Can&rsquo;t say it&rsquo;s illegal&mdash;ethical responsibility.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Comey gives his memos about Flynn to his friend at Columbia University, a professor, who gives it to the New York Times, a newspaper hostile, a newspaper that Comey knew printed false stories against Trump. Comey knew this. This is the big headline of the day. And Trump&rsquo;s lawyer, Kasowitz, Mark Kasowitz, made a big deal about that today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You&rsquo;re going to see an investigation now into Comey&rsquo;s leaking. So Comey admits he did it. He admits he did it, but the senators&hellip;</p>
<p>I tweeted immediately, this is what I tweeted:</p>
<p><em>Comey admits he asked a friend to leak his conversation with Trump about Flynn to a reporter. A bombshell the sluggish senators are ignoring. Major development! If Trump knew about that, that was cause to fire Comey.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If Trump got wind, and he may have, we don&rsquo;t know, that Comey was leaking memos to the New York Times, he&rsquo;s done. But Trump has not said that. Trump&rsquo;s lawyer said that Comey&rsquo;s excuse that Trump was tweeting bad things about the FBI and Comey wanted his side to be told is untrue because the New York Times referenced the memos, the Comey memos, a day before that tweet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Comey is in trouble. In trouble. This is the big headline today because we knew all the other Flynn stuff. We knew all the other stuff.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean, I&rsquo;ve got to tell you&hellip;the dopey senators sitting there, nobody got it. Nobody got it. And the media didn&rsquo;t get it either until I tweeted. I&rsquo;m taking credit. I tweeted this out and I went on <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/divided-nation-media-Bill-OReilly/2017/06/08/id/795028/" target="_blank">Newsmax</a> and said <em>what&rsquo;s going on?</em> And once I did that, ten minutes after I went on <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/divided-nation-media-Bill-OReilly/2017/06/08/id/795028/" target="_blank">Newsmax</a>, ten minutes, all the cable channels&hellip;&nbsp;</p>
<p>But in the beginning&hellip;..&nbsp;</p>
<p>I can&rsquo;t tell you how big this is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Burr then comes back and he hammers Comey for being disingenuous. He says <em>look, if you&rsquo;re so disturbed by Trump&rsquo;s take on Flynn, and you didn&rsquo;t wan to be alone with the president, you told the attorney general, Sessions, &ldquo;don&rsquo;t let me be alone with him anymore,&rdquo; you kept taking his phone calls privately. You could have basically said to the president, look I need to have my guys, second and third in command, in the room when we&rsquo;re talking just so we get a different perspective.</em></p>
<p>So Burr was hammering Comey for being disingenuous. Then Comey goes back, he goes back to the New York Times leak like <em>hey, this is ok, this is fine for me to as the FBI chief to do this, even though I was fired. </em>You can&rsquo;t do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Comey, when he was saying this, was just matter of fact. I don&rsquo;t think Comey understood what he was saying in the sense of how much grief this was going to bring him. This is an enormous story.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then they go back to Loretta Lynch again, and Comey reiterates that Lynch wanted him to downplay the Clinton email probe. Does that surprise anybody? No. He says it made him &ldquo;queasy,&rdquo; that&rsquo;s one of Comey&rsquo;s favorite words. Queasy, ok fine.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then that was about it. Comey reiterated that he was fired because of the way he conducted the Russia investigation. You know, I don&rsquo;t know. Yes, Trump said that he did fire Comey because he didn&rsquo;t like the way that the investigation was going, but he said a whole bunch of other things too. I don&rsquo;t think Trump trusted Comey at all, and now we know his trust, or his distrust, was well placed. Now we know. Right?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Comey then said again that Trump wanted to know the factual truth about the Russians, what they did, and told him to get it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s all the live tweeting that I did. I think you&rsquo;ve got a pretty good idea of how the whole thing went down. And if you want to read it, obviously we&rsquo;ll post it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There was one quote that I want to read you from Comey that puts him at odds with the media. Now remember, when you watch this tonight, MSNBC and CNN have got to be very disappointed because Trump comes out of this solid. He doesn&rsquo;t look great, he made some mistakes, he never should have mentioned Flynn at all, but there&rsquo;s no big revelation about President Trump.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if he&rsquo;s smart, this story ends this week and he goes on to other things next week, lets Mueller do his job. Stay out of it&mdash;that&rsquo;s what he should do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The hate-Trump media, they&rsquo;ll spin it, you know they&rsquo;ll spin it. But they don&rsquo;t have anything new. But you&rsquo;ll see the headlines&hellip;.they&rsquo;ll play down the Comey revelation. I don&rsquo;t know what Fox is going to do, because I&rsquo;ve got to tell you&hellip;I watch it now, there doesn&rsquo;t seem to be anybody&hellip;no, I&rsquo;m not going to say it. I don&rsquo;t know what they&rsquo;ll do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, here&rsquo;s the quote from Comey I want to read you:&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>I had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of General Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversation with the Russian ambassador in December.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>So it&rsquo;s a very narrow thing. That&rsquo;s what Flynn got fired for, he didn&rsquo;t tell Pence the truth about his conversation with the Russian ambassador in December. Comey goes on to say:&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>I did not understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to his campaign. I could be wrong, but I took him to be focusing on what had just happened with Flynn&rsquo;s departure, </em>his firing, <em>and the controversy around his account of the phone calls. Regardless, it was very concerning given the FBI&rsquo;s role as an investigative agency.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>That&rsquo;s pretty interesting that Trump didn&rsquo;t go in and try to obstruct justice or try to say <em>look, we don&rsquo;t want this investigation at all. </em>It was just narrowly focused on the deceit that Flynn perpetuated in not telling the vice president what happened.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a little point but it just reinforces the larger point: at this point in history, there is no evidence that President Trump tried to interfere with the Russian investigation or he himself did anything untoward. Period. That&rsquo;s the takeaway.&nbsp;</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-08T22:57:00ZO'Reilly on More Press Bias, Tweeting, & Grading TrumpBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-More-Press-Bias-Tweeting--Grading-Trump/-849267841563848782.html2017-06-07T23:00:00Z2017-06-07T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, and let me get the day right, the 7th of June 2017.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, tomorrow you've got the Comey testimony beginning at 2, no 10am Eastern time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm going to tweet. I'm going to tweet during the testimony. All right, if you guys want to... its @BillOReilly I think, the tweet thing. Anyway we've got a couple of million people following us on Twitter and we're going to do that tomorrow for you.</p>
<p>And of course we'll have the No Spin News podcast. And a lot of it will be devoted to the Comey testimony. Dennis Miller will join us tomorrow as well.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, I'm going to tie all this in together, Comey and what happened today at the Senate Intel hearing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So they bring in four chieftains that are supposed to keep us safe. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, Andrew McCabe, the FBI director, temporarily, Mike Rogers, the NSA director, and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy director of the Justice Department, deputy attorney general.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK so they're all there and the senators are getting a shot at them and ostensively it's about FISA warrants because the FISA law ends at the end of this year. But nobody cares about the FISA warrants. It's going to be passed, the warrants are going to continue. What they want, they being the senators on the Democratic side, is to talk about Russia collusion, which they tried to do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And you know, it just got so tedious. All four men said, <em>look nobody told us to tank the investigation. Nobody said anything inappropriate to us. I can't talk about specific conversations I had with President Trump or others because it's just not right to do that. It's a violation of confidence.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's true.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>If you give me a private hearing, I'll tell you what it was.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But there was no sense of menace, no sense of disaster. It's the same old stuff.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So the press hated it, hated it, because there wasn't a smoking gun pointed right at Donald Trump's head. Now tomorrow you're going to have Comey dispute what President said about Comey...said three times he wasn't under investigation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's going to nuance it. It is going to be, <em>well I didn't exactly say that and the words maybe weren't this way.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But Comey obviously doesn't have any love for President Trump who humiliated him, as we reported yesterday. But is Comey going to go and say he obstructed justice or he did anything like that? He can't because Comey didn't report anything like that.</p>
<p>So it'll be innuendo and it will be you know...he probably...<em>I felt uncomfortable...I didn't really want to have the conversation.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is Comey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And you know, the left-wing press will blow it up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let me give you a really good example. James Clapper, who I kind of like, he was the defense intelligence chief under President Obama. He's in Australia. And he's giving speeches for money down there and it comes up, as it often does, with Q&amp;A.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Well is this like Watergate?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Clapper says, <em>oh the Russian situation, much, much more important than Watergate. Much more significant than water&hellip;.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oh. The liberal press goes wild. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Look at this, it's another...it's worse than Watergate.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>What Clapper was talking about is the initial occurrence. If you read his remarks.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Watergate was a break in by five guys, plumbers, of the Democratic National Headquarters to get intel about the election. That's what Watergate was. The Russian allegations are that Putin and his merry men tried to interfere in our elections.</p>
<p>I'm sorry about that. Ah, these machines drive me crazy. I put it on silent, which I should have done first.</p>
<p>Let's get back to this, it's important.</p>
<p>So the Russian allegations are that Putin and his merry men hacked in and tried to influence the vote in the USA. Of course, that is a much more serious situation than five guys breaking in trying to find out what McGovern is going to do in the election.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's what Clapper meant. That's what he meant, but that's not what gets reported. What gets reported is that James Clapper thinks this is more serious than Watergate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, it's impossible for me to state how corrupt, not only the American press, but the worldwide press is. If there is hard evidence of collusion between President Trump, his crew, Putin and his crew, that'll be an amazing story. OK. And it would probably end the Trump presidency.</p>
<p>But there is no evidence, none, that that took place. And there is no evidence that President Trump tried to interfere in any kind of information gathering.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And the four guys today said that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So fair minded people stairstep it. Tomorrow Comey will tell us what Comey tells us. OK. And then I'll analyze it. I'll tell you if it's out of context, whether I believe him or not, all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Clapper in Australia, the liberal press goes crazy. But they don't report what the remarks truly reflected, the gravity of the situation should it unfold that Putin tried to hack in to... Putin was successful influencing our election. That's much bigger than what McGovern was going to do running against Nixon.</p>
<p>OK. A new FBI chief Christopher Wray. So this is who President Trump wants to run the FBI in place of Comey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Christopher Wray is a Yale graduate, a very successful lawyer in New Jersey. He did work in the Justice Department under President Bush the younger, he's associated with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie because he defended him in the so-called bridgegate controversy. Christie was not charged, so obviously Wray did a pretty good job there. That was when some of Christie's aides who were convicted blocked off the George Washington Bridge to back up traffic into a town called Fort Lee, New Jersey. OK. Because the mayor of Fort Lee wasn't supporting Governor Christie. And it went on and it was really clearly illegal, you can't be punishing people for that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, Christopher Wray represented Chris Christie in that fracas. Christie, not charged, denied any wrongdoing, said he didn't know about it, whatever. So Christie is an ally of Trump and Wray gets the call.</p>
<p>That's all I know about it. OK. And we'll follow it. But I don't know any more than that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Wall Street Journal, and I usually say read it, but I'm not going to do that anymore because I know you're busy and you pay good money to have me do the news for you or analyze the news for you. So here is the Wall Street Journal editorial today on Comey.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I didn't even cut it out, I ripped it out. And The Wall Street Journal basically says, <em>look we expect a hatchet job by Comey. We expect him to hatchet Trump. But he's not answering questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.</em> That's the tougher Committee. He will answer questions in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which the Wall Street Journal describes as clubby, like country club. Clubby.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now what the Judiciary Committee wants to know, and it has written a letter to Comey, is the following: <em>Did you create memos about your interaction with Justice Department officials or Mr. Trump on the Russian collusion situation?</em></p>
<p>So did you write memos? Simple yes or no. Yes I did. He did.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Did you share the contents of those memos with people inside or outside the Justice Department and who?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So if you wrote memos about a conversation with President Trump, did you talk about those memos with somebody? Who are they? Who did you talk about it with? Now that's a key because of the leaks.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>And if you have the copies of the memos that you wrote, we need to see them on the Senate Judiciary Committee. </em>That's the crux of this whole thing. Because if Comey did write memos after the discussions, the Senate Judiciary Committee has a right to see them, and so does the Senate Intelligence Committee, and so do we the people.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>All right, so what did you say?</em> So yeah we're going to get your testimony but we want to see what you wrote down. And then who'd you tell about this? Because that...everything was leaked, the Comey stuff was leaked, then it makes it easier to get the leakers.</p>
<p>So Comey's refused to answer these questions. So he's not going to answer them. You know, that's not good, particularly in light of if he does indeed hammer President Trump then he's not answering these questions? That's not right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now you'll hear General Michael Flynn's name a lot. Flynn is the center of this Russian deal. And I analyzed a few weeks ago that Trump feels sorry for Flynn, didn't really want to fire him, had to, as the national security adviser, and kind of, you know, just said ok, the guy's ruined, he's out. How much further are we going to go with this?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think Trump did say that to Comey and others. I believe he did. Now is that obstruction? No. It's his opinion. Look, he got the guy, how much more are you going to do? I could be wrong about that. But it doesn't strike me that Trump was aggressively trying to kabosh the investigation. He was just saying, <em>how much more are we going to do on Flynn?. You know, he's done.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, was that a mistake? Yes, it was a mistake, and so was meeting Comey alone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I think I'm up to speed on the Comey, Coats, McCabe, Rogers, Rosenstein deal. There was really nothing in that hearing today. I didn't get anything out of it all. It's just like ok, come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The guys didn't really have much to say. They liked the FISA warrants. All right. Good.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now the crackdown on the leakers. It comes under the Espionage Act, and this woman, Reality Winner, 25 years old, a former Air Force person, a translator, has an ability to pick up languages quickly, and a yoga instructor everyone. So she's arrested and in jail right now and her parents are upset because she was working for the National Security Agency, NSA as a contractor and this was in Augusta, Georgia and she took some classified information, she copied it and gave it to a website.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's against the law, Reality. It's against the law. You can't do that. So then they popped her. All right. Easy case to make. The website outed her and she's in big trouble. But did you know that more leakers were prosecuted under President Obama than all the other presidents combined since 1945. I tweeted that today.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So President Obama and President Trump have something in common. They both know that leakers are dangerous to the USA. Now Reality Winner, 25 years old, hates Trump by the way, she's a real Trump hater, and that got her in a lot of trouble. You know, they have to prosecutor her. She'll probably do a couple of years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now there is a new poll from ABC News. I want to tell you about this. 56 percent of U.S. adults say that President Trump is interfering with the Russian investigation. How would anybody know that? 36 percent say he's not and the rest don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know I love these poll questions. That's like asking me...ABC News calls up and says, do you know how long ago the first human being spoke a language?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I go, No.</p>
<p>Well would you give us a guess.&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's what this is. No American knows whether President Trump... now you can believe something based on what? What is the basis of it? CNN reporting? Oh my God.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here's another poll, this one by an organization called Faculty Row, which polls college professors. 63 percent, according to Faculty Row, of college professors in the USA believe Trump will be impeached during his first term. Based on what? That's not a belief that's a hope. So the question should have been "do you hope.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's just so stupid. But it does show you the level of hatred in colleges and universities across the country toward the president.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, what else do I have here? I think I went over everything. Now we have the great mail. Again, you can reach me directly by e-mail, Bill@BillOReilly.com, or go on the message boards. As a Premium Member you're entitled to do that, and post and we take from each.</p>
<p>So here's a message board question from Mary in Santa Fe, New Mexico, great town: <em>Bill, the podcasts are great. Feel like you're talking to the members and you are listening to us.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Absolutely, Mary. Another advantage of just doing this and not a television show is that I can listen much more closely to your feedback. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>The worst thing about your London/USA analogy is that the terrorists who get themselves planted in the U.K. are then able to get on a plane and fly to the USA without any visa.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>True.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They are welcome just like all Western Europeans. However, what you're not taking into consideration is the United States has a very, very strong relationship with UK authorities. Anybody on their watch list is tipped to the United States. Anybody.</p>
<p>So there's a watch list. We have one too. We have a watch list, so that any suspect...and believe me, when they see somebody come in, they be in customs and ICE, from London with an Arabic name, Muslim name, that kind of thing, they check. It's profiling but they check. And if he's on a watch list he goes right back. So I wouldn't be too worried about that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is Linda, Costa Mesa, California: <em>really like the podcast. Now I just watch you, Bill. I'm going to be traveling to China in the near future. Should I be worried about problems for Americans there?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>No. China is very hospitable to Americans. The business is booming even though President Trump criticized China heavily in the campaign. It looks like there's been a little detente there. Americans, from what I understand, I have a good friend that does business with Chinese all time, are pretty well treated by the Chinese. So that's what I get.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kaye, Pleasanton, California: <em>Bill, look forward for each day to the podcast. My question. You've stated many times about your neutrality in reporting the facts that you neither support or oppose the Trump administration. With that in mind, how do you rate the president's job performance to date?</em></p>
<p>It's incomplete because the legislation has been stalled by all the nonsense about Russian collusion and by the president's inability to calm the waters.</p>
<p>He did get the Supreme Court justice appointed and that was a campaign promise, Gorsuch, and that was good. That was a big win. The economy looks like it's picking up. You know, we'll see. But the signs are it is. Consumer confidence is up. Spending is up. But you've got to get the tax cut done this year.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now to health care, that's another crazy thing. Just today we learned that Ohio is not going to have any health insurance companies. They're all pulling out of Obamacare. And other states are in the same boat. So whether Mitch McConnell can whip the senators to get some health care proposal that Americans will support...&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's out of Trump's hands right now, it's in the Senate. It passed in the House. But you know, Congress is really cumbersome, really slow. So it's an incomplete for Donald Trump to be fair.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And you're right. I mean, I'm not in business to promote or criticize any administration. My goal, as it's always been, is to watch out for you to make sure you're getting a fair cut and to tell the truth about the news, which very few people are doing these days, as you know.</p>
<p>This is Mary in Deer Park, Long Island, New York: <em>Bill, doing a great job in this new venue. Actually, I think it suits you. You can spend as much time as you want on any topic. No hard breaks for time constraints and you don't have to wear makeup. I have a question. If air traffic control is privatized would that compromise national security if there was some kind of emergency?</em></p>
<p>No. The air traffic control thing is all about modernizing equipment. It's going to change any of the rules of the traffic controllers, they are going to do the same stuff. And they're answerable to the Federal Aviation Administration. They're going to still be answerable. It's getting somebody in there to upgrade the equipment and to reorganize how air traffic is done. But still the federal rules will apply.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ian Bell is in Markham, Ontario: <em>I'm a big fan of The Factor, Bill, and your new podcast. Who do you think may be in the running for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Right now, these are people who are raising money. There are three of them, big money. Governor Cuomo of New York, Joe Biden, Joe Biden set up a PAC, pretty old guy but I think Biden regrets not running against Trump, and of course Elizabeth Warren taking Bernie Sanders' place, the senator from Massachusetts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Those three are raising money. So that's always the indicator. They may go. I know Cuomo will go for sure. Don't know about Biden, but he looks like he will.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Cindy Ronca, San Luis Obispo, California, nice town on the Central Coast: <em>Bill, please give us an update on Kate's Law and its status. Last week near my hometown we had a murder suspect arrested. He's an illegal immigrant who was deported after serving time. He came back illegally and now in jail without bail for the murder of his girlfriend. Another preventable crime. Shame on Jerry Brown and our sanctuary state.</em></p>
<p>Cindy, for that analysis and that information, I'm sending you a signed copy of Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War. Terrific book. You'll love it. It was out yesterday, doing real well. Cindy gets a free copy. If you re-up your Premium Membership or you do...well, I'll tell you about that later.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Anyway. Kate's Law. We expect in the fall that it will be re-voted on. I hope they don't attach it to wall funding or something like that. I hope they just do a stand-alone because then it'll pass with the Republicans controlling the House and Senate. Is it a priority? Not really, but I think they're going to do it. I'll push them. You know I know Senator Grassley pretty well, he's been the guy that's been getting it done.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Robert Barrios, Houma, Louisiana: <em>Love Premium Membership and the podcast. Our youngest son is completing his 12th year in the U.S. Army as a Green Beret.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Congratulations.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>He skipped college and enlisted after his 18th birthday because his country had been attacked on 9/11. During his service he has become a real American history enthusiast. After five combat tours, we want to present him with a gift to start him on his civilian life. So which book in the killing series should he read first?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Killing Lincoln, I think. Although he's probably love Killing Patton and Killing the Rising Sun because those are war books.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I think if you're going to start the killing series you go with the first book, Killing Lincoln, and then you read them all down line. You don't have to do that. They all stand alone.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I bet you're really proud of your son, Robert. And a Green Beret, five combat tours, very, very impressive.</p>
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<p>Excellent, excellent. I sound like Michael Meyers in Wayne's World. Excellent.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Is this Reality Winner leaker the only one to be caught or do you think there's many more to come?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I do believe that under the leadership of Jeff Sessions as attorney general they're going to go after leakers. And I think that's one of the reasons that Comey left, that he was fired, because he wasn't really enthusiastic about that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Roger Vincent, Bowling Green, Kentucky: <em>I just received my free copy of Old School. Read it. It's great. I gave it to my 92-year-old father in law, Colonel Arthur Kelley. Couldn't put it down. Colonel Kelly fought in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wow, talk about a patriot.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>And asked me to tell you he is thoroughly enjoying Old School as well as all your killing books.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, I'm very flattered that you guys are reading and liking the books.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is from Mark Wait in Draper, Utah: <em>recently killed picked up Killing the Rising Sun, couldn't put it down. Became a Premium Member, ordered Killing England. I'm a college student, what advice would you give me trying to survive campus life?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Just keep your head down. You don't have to convert the impossible people, Mark. Study hard, do well in college, get a good job, and then you can exert your influence. There's no sense fighting the loons unless they intrude on you. You know, if they intrude on you then you have to fight. But you know, I know what it's like and I'm glad you're reading the books and all of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Finally, Sally on the message board, Trinity, Florida: <em>Bill, love podcast, don't know what I'd do without your analysis. I appreciated my husband's wisdom and analysis on world news, but I lost him two years ago.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sorry for your loss, Sally.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>So what Sally is referring to is if you sign up Premium Members, and it's a good Father's Day gift, you get free books. So if you recommend three people for Premium Membership and they do it, you'll get three free books. You'll get a free book and they'll get a free book. So just for referring you get free books.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Have a great night.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-07T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Terror in Europe & More Comey HysteriaBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Terror-in-Europe--More-Comey-Hysteria/-639168575795823978.html2017-06-06T23:00:00Z2017-06-06T23:00:00Z<p>Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, that's you, welcome to the No Spin News/podcast/whatever it is. We're going to put a little bit out on Facebook. I don't even know what Instagram is but when I figure it out we'll do something with that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In a million years I never thought this would be my vehicle of communications. And you should know that yeah I've had a lot of offers since I left Fox News. And you know, I'm taking them very seriously and I'm very flattered that people want to employ me, but I'm looking for exactly the right vehicle to come back with. Whether that happens or not I don't know.</p>
<p>We're in talks with a lot of people. I have agents and lawyers and all of this stuff. It's very interesting to go through the process because I was there at Fox News for 20 years and eight months, that's a long time. And I never had to do any of this. But it's interesting because there's so much change going on.</p>
<p>So this podcast, I didn't think I was going to like this at first but now I really like it because I don't have any restraints at all. I can talk directly to you. There's a lot of really important things going on. We're getting tons of new Premium Members, spread the word, please. And it's a very good vehicle. But I want to expand it, and we're going to continue doing it of course, but I want to expand it into a little bit bigger visual component. So we're looking into that and all.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So let's start with the Paris attack. This is inevitable that you're going to have copycat people. And some guy with a hammer attacks a police officer near the Cathedral of Notre Dome, right on the Seine River in Paris. And he's screaming about Syria...it's the usual nonsense. There are a lot of very, very troubled people in every group.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And now we're seeing these people come out. And it's not going to stop, unfortunately. We're going to have to deal with these kinds of stories. But there's an interesting thing going on, a comparison that I made this morning with my staff, between how England handles jihadists and how the USA handles them. Basically, here you can be arrested for stating that you want to travel to help ISIS. That's enough to get you arrested on terrorism charges.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The FBI is very aggressive on monitoring the Internet looking at people's correspondence and the NSA listens to it. So if you want to book a plane to go to Syria and you're an American citizen and the authorities find out about it and there is some kind of ISIS component you mentioned you're sympathetic to them or you want to go up and help them, you'll be arrested.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In the U.K. not so much. In fact, it's hard to get deported.</p>
<p>It's hard to get deported in England. In 2015, the last study, about forty-one thousand people were removed from the UK or departed voluntarily. Many, many more departed voluntarily than were deported.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that means the British authorities said we don't want you here anymore. We'll give you four weeks to get out or we're going to put you in cuffs and throw you out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's a lot easier to get out voluntarily. But 41,000. That's all. And remember, while the U.K. was in the E.U., anybody holding an EU passport, forged or otherwise, can go to England and stay as long as they wanted to stay. You don't have to register with anybody.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So a massive amount of foreigners have descended upon England. Not nearly as many in Scotland or Ireland, but England, London, huge target, as we discussed yesterday. Then they form ghettos where it's very hard for the police to get in and monitor what's happening and thus you have terrorism all the time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>By contrast in the USA, in 2012 under Barack Obama, four hundred and ten thousand people were removed from this country. 410,000. Ten times as many as the UK. Yes. Our population is bigger. The UK is about 80 million and we're 325, something like that. But 410,000 removed, not voluntarily. Because we don't do the voluntary thing here. If you're found to be in a country illegally you go through the process.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So there was this Liberalism, and I think it's going to end, in the UK and also in France that <em>OK they're here, we're not going to really supervise them very much.</em> They being the jihadists are now on the flip side of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There's a story that US backed... I don't really know what that means but I figured it's the Kurds... troops are now going to attack Raqqa, where the ISIS people have their headquarters. So it looks like the Kurds are going to do that heavy lift and U.S. special forces are there to help them. So that's begun. Raqqa has been occupied by ISIS for three years. Three years.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The world let that happen. Setting up command and control for ISIS. Three blankin' years. I can't... you know, it's stunning. That should never have happened.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But the world will not unite against the jihad. It just doesn't, it's all over the place. So anyway we're following that story. It's going to... believe me, the USA doesn't want to take casualties. So Mosul is still going on. I think Mosul has been longer than Stalingrad. That fight in Iraq is still going on because they are very careful about how they do it. They don't want a lot of people dead. ISIS hides behind civilians. I don't really object to that. So the fight in Raqqa is underway.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right let's come back home.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you watch cable news you'll know that the liberal networks, MSNBC and CNN, are hysterical about the former FBI Director James Comey testifying on Thursday. They have little things on the screen, how many hours, a countdown, you've got to be there, take the day off from work. And why? Because these networks and the anti-Trump media in general are rooting for Comey to say something that will disrupt the Trump presidency. That's what they want. Hoping, praying, rooting, <em>please James Comey, say something negative about the president so we can run with it for weeks and further harm his administration.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. I don't think anybody would dispute that. Would anybody dispute that? Now, the role of the press, as we've discussed here, is to seek the truth, not root for a politician to be destroyed. It's to seek the truth about any story. It doesn't happen anymore. It just doesn't happen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It's: we don't like Trump, we don't like people who voted for Trump, we don't like any media who gives Trump a fair shot, and we're going to go and punish all of those people. But our main goal is to get President Trump out of office as quickly as possible. By any means.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Comey, who can't be too pleased with Donald Trump, right? He fired him and embarrassed him. So Comey was embarrassed. And so I expect Comey to go in and be kind of negative. Now I'm not going to speculate about what he's going to say. I'll leave that to the cable news people. And even when I was on cable news for 20 years and eight months, I didn't speculate. And if I had to for a reason that was worthy, I told you that it's a speculation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm not going to speculate on what James Comey might say. However, he has to be careful because he never reported any attempted obstruction to anybody that's on the record by Comey himself and the Justice Department, the associate assistant attorney general.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So he can't change that story. Comey can't change it. What Comey can do is tell what happened in the meeting with President Trump, because there were only two people in the meeting, Trump and him. As I said, that was a huge mistake on the part of the president. You cannot meet with anybody privately. Anybody. You've got to have somebody there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So let's recap.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Comey comes up Thursday, and I'll be there for you. I'll tell you exactly what I think happened. The anti-Trump press, 80 to 85 percent of all journalists in America are against him, that's my estimation, are rooting for Comey to say something bad so that they can run and craft the big thing about obstruction of justice or whatever it may be.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What you're hearing back there is the news central out here on Long Island. I've got stuff coming in all the time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, the third element of this is the reportage after the fact. So on Thursday we'll have an extended No Spin News. And I'm going to analyze what Comey said, whether I believe it's true, how Trump should handle it, and then how what Comey said is being reported. So you've got four big areas.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I guess I'm doing the same thing that MSNBC and CNN are doing. I'm kind of promoing the Comey coverage. But we're going to do it honestly. We're going to do it responsibly. Which is why you guys are Premium Members.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Another story that caught my eye was a 25-year-old woman, her name is Reality Leigh Winner, or something like that, who is an independent contractor, that means a freelance worker, for the National Security Agency. She apparently leaked stuff about Russian hacking to an Internet site. Reality lives in Augusta, Georgia and has gotten a real big dose of reality because she's been arrested.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This is the first leaker arrested. Believe me when I tell you, President Trump is crazed about the leaks. Now how did that happen? Young woman comes in. National Security Agency has to hire freelancers to do certain work. Probably she was on the computer somewhere. She has to sign a paper that anything she sees or hears won't be disclosed to anybody. She decides to disclose it. So she's arrested. And it's not going to get off.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So this woman, who is probably a simpleton...speculation, but if you would do that, you've got to be really dim and think that you're not going to get unmasked giving it to some Internet site?</p>
<p>So anyway, she's in big trouble. And that's going to continue. The leakers are putting all of us in danger. That's the truth.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So we got a lot of good mail on a lot of subjects. And you notice that I'm running this podcast to be between 25 and 30 minutes, and I just did about 12 minutes on my opening remarks, which is like a Talking Points Memo but it expands the news of the day. Some days when we get really good mail, I'm asked really good questions, I'm going to give more time to the mail because it's more fun that way. I mean, people disagree with me and they state their opinions, and we want to have that, it's a very interactive thing.</p>
<p>So there's two ways. You can post on a message boards so everybody can see it. We see it. We take off what we think is relevant to the podcast. And then you get me at Bill@BillOReilly.com. And that e-mail gets directly to me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The first one is a Bill@BillOReilly.com email from Jack Mollin in Scottsdale, Arizona: <em>Bill, please explain why the president cannot ask Congress to declare war on ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and all terrorist organizations listed by the US government? By doing so, any US citizen who provides direct or indirect aid or comfort to a declared enemy of the USA could then be arrested and charged with sedition or treason.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I've called for that, Jack, if you watched The Factor, for years, just for the reason that you stated. That makes it a lot easier for authorities to crack down on anybody aiding the enemy. Why President Obama, President Bush, President Trump has not asked Congress for a formal declaration of war against the jihadists and then under the jihadist label you list the Islamic groups that are participating. I don't think you can go outside that to other guerrilla groups, other terrorist groups, you don't do that, but you do have to go for the jihad.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean, I know it would pass. So why the president doesn't do that, President Trump? I don't know. I would.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Jean was on a message boards, Fleming Island, Florida: <em>I am so afraid we're going to have to save Europe once again. They make a big mess time after time then holler for help. Why did the EU countries think they could assimilate a people from a culture so far removed from their own? Their 1000-year history of very little immigration, unlike our own in the USA, did not prepare them for this migration even before the refugees started pouring in.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Good letter, Jean. We're not going to save Europe from the jihadists. We're not going to do that. Particularly President Trump. I mean, he is adamant that it's America first, we're going to look at our borders and our situation, and what they do in Belgium, he's not going to really micro-manage. He does want a stronger NATO. Ok, he told them, you've got to put in more money. Some countries will, some won't.</p>
<p>What are you going to do? I'd boot them out if they didn't. I'd say you're not a member of NATO any longer.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now that would make Putin happy. Putin wants a weaker NATO. I understand. But I think most countries would pony up if you say, look help us out, we'll help you. Don't help us out, we're not going to help you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But you've got to be pretty square about it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Europe is a mess and that is right on Barack Obama's doorstep because he allowed the Syrian situation and the Iraq situation to get out of control, and people are streaming. And you would too. If you had little kids and you had family in Syria and Iraq and ISIS was coming in, you'd leave to.</p>
<p>So you can't blame these poor refugees. But they come and they risk their lives, they sail across to Greece and Italy, and then they go up to wherever they have people, wherever they know anybody. And as you stated, the Europeans can't handle it. And it's changing everything in Europe. I saw it when I was in Italy. Italy, they have special forces everywhere. In Rome it was like every corner.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bonnie, Brimley, Michigan: <em>Bill, good to hear you and Bernie Goldberg talking again.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Some people didn't like Bernie, but most people did.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>I know I'm being redundant when I say I'm so happy you're back on the air but I cannot help myself. Nothing better than hearing factual No Spin News. You're right on point regarding our president's plight. The constant negativity, vicious attacks, and lies can affect the strongest of individuals and he must have the courage to persevere. What can his supporters do to help him? When you talk to President Trump next time, encourage him to use Twitter with more discretion.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, well I've already discussed that with the president and he's going to do what he does. That's just him. I agree with you that the Twitter stuff hurts his overall presentation more than it helps it, at this point. I see the worthiness because I'm up in my Twitter thing. I'm doing three a day now. I see the worthiness of it, but you've got to be careful about being factual, like the London thing we talked about yesterday with the mayor. Mr. Trump didn't quite get what the mayor was saying. Therefore, he left himself open.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What can trump supporters do? You know, I really don't know if there's anything you can do to break down a hostile press. Maybe write letters to the editor in your local newspapers if you even read them. Maybe post stuff if you see something blatantly unfair. That's pretty much all you can do.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Norman Ivancevich, Renton, Washington: <em>Bill, I'm a pilot. I can tell you that the airline mess is not the fault of air traffic control, it's because the airlines themselves and deregulation. People at air traffic control are incredible considering what they have to do all things considered. Privatization is not going to make it better.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I disagree, Norman. As a pilot, you want the best equipment. Right? And a privatization of air traffic control would get you better equipment, better organized stuff, better filing, all of that would be upgraded. At least that's the vision. OK. That's why they want to take it out of the government, which is just pandemonium. They don't have any money, the feds and all that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Put it in the private sector so some company will make money, even though it's a nonprofit, but they've got to make money, why would they bother doing it, and then upgrade the whole deal and get grants by the government to do it. Also, they get user fees, they call it call user fees at the airports. All right. So somebody could make some money doing this and your life as a pilot would be a lot better. But I do agree with you that the stacks at the airport are because everybody wants to leave at 9 in the morning and there's no regulation of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So 15 airlines going, <em>you know, I'm leaving at 9.</em> No, you're not, because you're stacked up on the runway. And that should be regulated.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Judith Callahan, Henderson, Nevada: <em>Bill, I'm planning a trip to London and Rome in September. I'm 70 years old, this trip I've dreamed about my whole life. Will my daughter and I be safe?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Judith, you go on your trip. All right. Terrorism is at random. It's almost like a car accident or a heart attack. Odds are you're not going to have any problem in London or Rome. You enjoy yourself. Both cities are relatively safe as far as crime is concerned. So you go, don't be apprehensive. Life is life, but it's like a million to one that you'll get caught up in something like this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kathleen Proto, Bentleyville, Pennsylvania: <em>I really enjoy the podcast. My local newspaper had the Washington Post you referred to quoted on the front page.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look, I know what's happening. I know that the smaller newspapers are taking stuff from the New York Times and The Washington Post, and you know, those papers really despise Donald Trump. And their hard news reporting reflects it. So I'm sorry. That's the way it is.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Richard Press, Roscommon, Michigan: <em>I'm 22 years old. Lately I've been thinking to myself. Has America ever been as divided as it is now? Every day we hear of another act that just splits us farther and farther apart from one another.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, you get, because this is a very good question, Richard, you get a copy of Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, out today. And we have a good synopsis of it on the website. <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/p/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/Legends--Lies:-The-Civil-War/48684.html" target="_blank">Please read it.</a> Fabulous book. Fabulous. Because it is over all of the Civil War, but not boring, pictures. We selected the high profile people like Stonewall Jackson, Harriet Tubman. You're going to love it. It's a beautiful book. All right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, Richard Press gets it free and I'll sign it for you, Richard, too, because of the good question. We're going to do that for the next few weeks. We want you to check out Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, divided. Twice in history has the country been in... maybe three times, let's say three times. First time was the Civil War itself. Obviously we were killing each other. We Americans were killing each other. So we were very divided. And you make an argument that the Revolutionary War was 50/50 Patriots to Tories. And my new book, Killing England, which will be out in September, we deal with that. But there weren't that many people in America at that time.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Civil War was big time, big time division. Second was before World War II. You had Americans who knew the danger from Hitler and the Japanese to a lesser extent and wanted more aggressive action taken earlier against the Axis powers in Europe and the Japanese invaders in the Pacific. But about 50 percent of the population didn't want anything to do with it. Big division. And Franklin Roosevelt, caught in the middle of that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The country was really, really vehemently divided before World War II. That all ended on Pearl Harbor Day.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The third was the Vietnam War. The country fractured. Not only because of the war but because of the culture changes. You saw it play out, long hair, free love, drugs acceptable. Vietnam divided people who felt that it was worth it to stop communism in that forlorn country and those who said, why are we fighting this kind of a war, for what? Fifty-six thousand Americans killed. That was an amazing division.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, it's intense but it doesn't rise to that. If it continues to go this way, it might, but not yet.</p>
<p>McKenna Mentzel, Mitchell, South Dakota: <em>as a high school student, I've been looking into colleges to find out which one I'd like to attend. I'm aware you went to Boston University. I was wondering how it was.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I was in grad school at BU. Big school, more than 20.000. The school has taken a turn to the left. It was primarily left when I was there but not crazy left because the president of the school, John Silber, Dr. John Silber, was a very sober, tough, no nonsense guy, kept things in check. Now the school is much further left with a lot of left-wing professors. I wouldn't say undergrad there. I'm a proponent of smaller undergraduate schools. I went to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Perfect for me. Grad school, yeah then you go to the bigger schools. I would go to BU for grad school. They've got a great Ed school, education, good med school, good law school.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But for undergrad, McKenna, I think you want to look at something smaller. You're from South Dakota. In the upper Midwest there are a lot of good smaller schools and then you can go to the larger schools when you graduate. Because if you want to specialize you need a master's degree. So that's my advice.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Look, Legends &amp; Lies tells the truth, Shirley. It tells the truth.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Sorry for your loss, Robert. I'm sure your Mom was an old school gal. Old School: Life in the Sane Lane doing great. It makes a great Father's Day gift and I'm glad your Mom was a Factor fan. I really am.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>We've got a lot of news to tell you about so let's get right to it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The terror attack in London. An ISIS inspired event. By that I mean that these people who do this are copycats. So they've seen what's happened in France, and in London before, and in Manchester and they want to create terror.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So basically what happened was there were five, I understand, terrorists and others have been arrested who aided and abetted them. All right, so on Saturday they went across the London Bridge, I was going to say Brooklyn Bridge, but the London Bridge, and they run up on the sidewalk with their vehicles and mow people down.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then they get out and they have knives and they stab people. And you're going to find out that they were all radical Islam people. That's what we're going to find out.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what happens after that are the politicians, Theresa May, the prime minister of the U.K., says <em>terrible, we're going to crack down, this is terrible, we're going to crack down.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Let me tell you what's going on.</p>
<p>In Europe, unlike the United States, there are huge Muslim ghettos, particularly in Paris and London. And Germany is starting to have them to.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In these ghettos it's just Muslims. That's it. Therefore, Islamists jihadists, terrorists have a comfort zone. So they don't have to worry about informers.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For example, Dearborn, Michigan. Big Muslim population in the USA. But Dearborn has a lot of other people. And if they see, they the other people, some suspicious activity, they're going to report it likely. Not so in the ghettos of Paris, London, Brussels. Nobody is going to say anything because it's the kiss of death if you do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So that the jihadists can operate more freely, they can meet, they can discuss. Radical imams in the mosques can fire them up without consequence. So you very rarely hear of anybody arrested in Europe on sedition charges. But in the United States, the FBI will grab people all the time who are thinking about joining ISIS, in contact with them. You don't hear much about that over in Europe. So it's an easier thing to do over there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, now the reaction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Typical reaction. Trump gets involved, the president gets involved by tweeting, something I wish he wouldn't do, because he kind of messed up the London mayor's tweet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The London Mayor, who doesn't like Trump and has insulted Trump, Trump doesn't like him, said to his people: <em>we have an increased police presence. Don't be alarmed.</em></p>
<p>All right. That was the statement. President Trump took it as he was saying don't be alarmed to the British people about terrorism.</p>
<p>So President Trump made a mistake in the tweet, but it's small ball. What isn't small ball is one of the police officers who was wounded by the terrorists didn't have a gun, because in London many, many police officers are unarmed. He had a baton. And the terrorist he was trying to neutralize stabbed him in the face and other places.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now is it me or should the mayor of London be out there going, I want all my guys and gals armed. This is not only a crime. This is a war on terror. Right?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I mean, you're sending your police officers out to fight jihadist killers without a gun? That story has been tamped down, because the media in Great Britain is very liberal, more liberal than it is here if you can imagine that. So that's something that I picked up.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this is the Washington Post story by a man named Philip Rucker, who is the White House bureau chief. I'm going to quote it.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>A traditional president would have reacted carefully to the London Bridge terrorist attacked by instilling calm, being judicious about facts and appealing to the country's better angels. But Donald Trump is no traditional president. He reacted impulsively to Saturday night's carnage by stoking panic and fear, being indiscreet with details of the event, and capitalizing on it to advocate for one of his more polarizing policies, and to advance a personal feud that's against the mayor of London.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now number one, how Mr. Rucker would know that he reacted impulsively, the president. How would you know that? I mean the president was briefed. He tweeted what he wanted to tweet and he said, look this is another example of why we need to have a travel ban from places like Somalia and Libya and Syria and Iran where there are no standards of who leaves the country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Seems to me when you're in the middle of a controversy over that and you believe, as President Trump does, that this will protect Americans from terrorism, you could restate that in England they don't have that policy and indeed their open border policy, which is why they left the European Union, has led to all of this carnage. But not according to Mr. Rucker... this was impulsive. An appeal to better angels? What better angels?&nbsp;</p>
<p>We're under attack by jihadists. We, the Western world. What are you talking about? That's one thing... you know, I love Pope Francis, I really think he's a kind man, but I'd really like to talk to him about that. What is a responsibility of Christians in this attack on our values? What is our responsibility? To fight back? To turn the other cheek? What is it? But you're never going to get the pope to address that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway, this is what passes for news coverage today, which is why you guys are listening to me right now. You're not going to get the news covered in a fair way in this country.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So on CNN, I'm sorry, MSNBC, it's hard to tell the difference. MSNBC, a guy named Thomas Roberts starts to rant and rave over the weekend and he poses this question to the Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed. Why he would even be involved I have no idea. Quote from Thomas Roberts: <em>is the president trying to provoke a domestic attack with his Twitter rant?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I don't think President Trump has to provoke any attacks, Mr. Roberts. OK. I think the attacks are coming on children in Ariana Grande concerts. You don't need to be provoked. And Kerry did that too today: oh, this travel ban thing, it just, it's a jihad recruiting poster.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You know, come on. Your policy, Mr. Kerry, with all due respect, was to retreat from all of this with one exception, the drone warfare. But you presided over the biggest migration of Muslims into Europe in history because you wouldn't take any steps to protect civilians in Syria. That was you, John Kerry. This drive me crazy, these guys. But they don't see it that way, and no matter what you do they're not going to see it that way.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So that's the London terror deal. Not being reported accurately. What are they going to do in England? Well number one, they have to arm the cops. OK. Number two, they have to penetrate the Muslim ghettos by undercovers, and they should have plenty of those. And number three, they've got to stop the open borders, which they are. OK.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Climate change reaction. This is interesting. Jerry Brown, the governor of California. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York. Other governors say <em>we're not going to throw out the Paris climate accord. We're going to do what it says in our individual states.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Good. I'm all for that. I live here in New York. If Andrew Cuomo wants to have good pollution and fossil fuel standards, strict standards, I'm for that unless it hurts New York's economy, which it does upstate because he doesn't want fracking. So upstate New York is still devastated. Nothing much going on up there.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Cuomo, all right, you're going to ban fracking, people have to vote. But in California the economy is booming. Not a lot of energy there. It's more service and high tech. So if Jerry Brown wants to have very strict pollution standards in California, I favor that. I favor that. And then the people of the individual states can make up their mind whether that's worthy or not vis-a-vis the economy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But for the president, who represents all 50 states, he's got to do what's best for most of the states. And Trump says the economy is hurt by this Paris climate accord. We're still going to have standards and try to get down our emissions, which we have, and clean air and clean water. But we're not going to obey the mandates and pump in the billions of dollars when the other countries aren't. It makes sense. But the individual states? Look, the cleaner the better to me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So I'm not angry with Cuomo or Brown or the other governors doing this, but I will say that if I'm living in upstate New York, I either a) move out, because there's no way to make a living up there right now en mass, or B) vote Cuomo out because he's hurting upstate New York.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Today air traffic controllers were addressed by President Trump. Quickly, he wants to privatize the system. Can't do any worse than what we're doing now. He doesn't want the government involved paying more money for obsolete stuff. He wants to get somebody in there. He calls it nonprofit. There's have to be some profit in it to get anybody to overhaul the whole air traffic control system, but whatever. I can't get into the micro of it, but good, get the government out of it. They can't work it. Airline Traffic in America is a disaster on every front. Get privatization.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Right after the speech I turned over to CNN. They brought on a Trump basher who said, <em>well he's not addressing the bridges and the roads.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. The press conference is about air traffic control, not about bridges and roads. Apparently President Trump's going to do that soon. I'm not sitting here defending President Trump. I'm just pointing out the absurdity of these cable networks. So this woman: <em>oh, he didn't do anything about the roads.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, lady. You know?&nbsp;</p>
<p>And then I turned on MSNBC and they weren't even covering it. They were back to bashing and Trump over the terrorism.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now I asked my pal Bernie Goldberg to join us today on the No Spin News to talk about the media craziness. So we're going to do what we did with Miller last week, Dennis Miller, and that's still up. If you guys didn't see it, you can <a href="https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Return-of-the-D-Man:-OReilly--Miller-Discuss-the-Latest-Headlines/554147295745271275.html" target="_blank">watch the whole interview</a>.</p>
<p>We're going to use Part of my interview with Bernie in the No Spin news right now, but the whole thing will be posted on the website, so you can see the whole thing if you want to. So let's roll Bernie:&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> <em>So now let's get to the media which is totally falling apart. You heard about Bill Maher using the N-word on his HBO program. We went over the Kathy Griffin thing with the beheading of the president. Megyn Kelly was up against Putin on Sunday night on NBC, first program for them. So let's bring in Bernie Goldberg who is our media watch dog.</em></p>
<p><em>I'm not surprised at all the craziness because the anti-Trump hatred, and you've labeled it Trump derangement syndrome, is now giving people a boldness that they never had even with President Bush the Younger. They feel almost entitled to be gross when it comes to Donald Trump.</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernie</strong>: <em>I totally agree. I have not, as you know Bill, I have not been a fan of this president. Not his policies, I've never criticized his policies. It's his demeanor. But what we're witnessing now is a feeding frenzy and a feeding frenzy has nothing to do with rational analysis, it takes on a life of its own so that you can listen... I'll name the cable channel. You could listen to MSNBC, and there's a show on in the morning called Morning Joe, and you could listen, and I mean this literally, for three hours, five days a week, and hear nothing but bashing of Donald Trump.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>Now there must be another point of view that they could bring on even as a foil to say "and what do you think about that.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> <em>Well they do that on CNN. They have this grey haired guy that they trot out and they just beat the hell out of him. But I think it's more than that. And let me give you an example from my own experience.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>These people in the media, including myself on occasion, become undisciplined when they feel that they can attack at will. You call it a feeding frenzy, blood in the water, whatever maybe.</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><em>You remember a few months ago, Maxine Waters. I said something on Fox &amp; Friends that her hair looked like a James Brown wig. Remember that?</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernie</strong>: <em>Yeah I do.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill</strong>: <em>And I got rightly criticized for making fun of Maxine Waters' appearance. Now I only did that because at that time I was feeling that Congresswoman Waters was so out there, calling for impeachment, saying crazy things, that I could make fun of her that way. That's why I did it. My guard was down. All right. So once I recognized, you know O'Reilly, number one, that was unnecessary, you shouldn't have said it. And number two, it was stupid. And number three, you did it because you felt you could. You felt you could do it. And that's what happens to these people.</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernie</strong>: <em>No that's a very important point. Once the atmosphere is such and by the way... Let me finish the thought then I'll make the historical point. Once the atmosphere is such that you can say these things, more and more people will say these things. Now we've seen it happen throughout history. In the old south, in the bad old days, it was "OK" in quotation marks to say certain things about black people. So more and more people did just that.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>There's no comparison to race in America. So I'm not making that comparison with Donald Trump. But I am saying that once you think it's OK to do something because you're not going to be criticized for it or you're even going to be praised for it, it happens more and more. So Stephen Colbert makes this crude, vulgar rant, which wasn't even funny on his program. And that leads to Kathy Griffin doing the same thing. And that's in an atmosphere of liberal Democrats who have every right not to like Donald Trump, but they talk ridiculously about impeachment and treason. Treason? An atmosphere, Bill, is created, whereas the next person to come along feels, "yeah I can say that too." So I think you're absolutely right.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill</strong>: <em>Yeah, I can do whatever I want to do because that person is so marginalized. How about Bill Maher with the N-word. What'd you think about that?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bernie</strong>: <em>Well that's an interesting thing. First of all, generally speaking in an overarching sense, I don't think people should be fired for saying something that they shouldn't have said. OK. That's number one. Number two, I don't think he should have said it. But I'm one of the very, very few people, maybe the only person, who thinks that the... I'm using the term the N-word, referring to the N-word, not the real word, I think the term the N-word is baby talk. It's too clean. It's too sterile. The other word, what the N-word represents is a vile word with a vile history. I think if we're going to use the word we should use the real N-word so that people feel uncomfortable.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill</strong>: <em>But he did, Maher used it and he got hammered everywhere</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Bernie</strong>: <em>I'm saying as a general rule, when I hear the N-word, that's a word you could use in front of your grandmother. Hey, he said the N-word. No, I want to hear the real word. In Maher's case it had a historical reference. He shouldn't have said it. He's provocative, he's trying to be funny. But I'll tell you this. This I know with absolute certainty. If somebody's on the right had said it exactly the way Bill Maher said it, there would be pickets around the HBO building on sixth avenue...</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Bill:</strong> <em>Absolutely, the color of change...</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again, you can <a href="http://www.billoreilly.com/video/exclusive-clips?pid=21773" target="_blank">see the whole interview with Bernie Goldberg</a> or you can hear it, you can see me listening to him on the website. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Let's go the mail. I always get great mail.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lucinda Callis in North Chesterfield, Virginia: <em>Bill, why has the British government not considered allowing its citizens to arm themselves? I believe the possibility that Americans may be armed is an effective deterrent against terrorism.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, in England they pride themselves as being a non-violent society. I lived there for a year and they see America as this violent, wild west place where everybody has a gun, and they don't want that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Historically, we Americans had to have guns to settle our country, had to. In England, no, because it was already settled and they had swords and spears, lances. They didn't have to have guns. So guns never really came in as a mass market situation. And before terrorism there was crime, of course, in England, and some police are armed. But most of the police patrol the beats without guns. They only have a stick, and that's the way the British subjects wanted it. But now in a changing world I'm not so sure.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As far as the USA is concerned, terrorism has not been really fought back here by armed civilians because most of us aren't armed. We have access to guns and many of us have guns in our homes that are locked, but we're not carrying. A minority, a small minority of people do that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ted Cayford, Stevens Point, Wisconsin: <em>Bill, you know President Trump better than we do. Are you concerned that the constant barrage of attacks he faces is a threat to either his spirit or his health?</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>What an excellent question, Ted. And for that question you get a free copy of Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, out tomorrow. All right. Ted Cayford gets this fabulous book, and it really is fabulous. I'll tell you a little bit more about it in a moment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now onto the question. I do think that these vicious attacks on President Trump have hurt him psychologically. He's a man who wants to be liked but most of all he wanted his unbelievable achievement of being elected president acknowledged.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And it isn't being acknowledged. It's being scorned and it's being said that Russia did it. It drives him crazy. So the attacks are affecting Donald Trump. He is a human being and it's his challenge to overcome that. He's got to overcome it because they're not going to stop it.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>We have lots of plans that I don't really want to articulate at this point because they may not come true. But you know, obviously this is a very, very viable operation. We're adding Premium Members like crazy. People want this kind of analysis. So we're going to look to expand coming up.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Yeah we had Dennis Miller on and you can get his book as well as any of my books, Killing Patton, free books. And you can get Legends &amp; Lies now. Legends &amp; Lies will be part of that package.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Karen Ellisor, Biloxi, Mississippi: <em>concerning the Kathy Griffin issue, when I saw the photo it broke my heart. All I could think of were the poor people who were beheaded by ISIS.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. I mean, Miss Griffin has really taken it on the chin. I don't think we have to overdo it. She's lost a lot of bookings and has been scorned. You know, Bernie and I talked about it. I don't think we have to overdo it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now on the message boards. Michael from Woodland Hills, California posts: <em>Greetings, Bill, from the only two gay conservatives in Los Angeles. my partner Luis and I just finished Old School, we found it to be most enjoyable. Being able to see you on video has restored a sense of normalcy to our news viewing. Fact based reporting was on its way to extinction until you came back. Looking forward to seeing you, Miller in Anaheim, California in December and were disappointed that all the VIP tickets are sold out.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, well first of all, Michael, I think you're underestimating the gay population, because wherever I go gay people come up to me, both men and women, and compliment me on my presentation. So there's a lot more gay Americans that understand what we do here than not.&nbsp;</p>
<p>My philosophy: all Americans are entitled to equal footing in the pursuit of happiness. All Americans. Just obey the law. The reason that you feel pressured is because the outspoken gays, many of them are progressive, and they don't brook other points of view real well. That I think is a fact. I would love to see the gay community, most of whom I think are moderates, put a cork in that and say, <em>you know what, we're not all like the West Hollywood guys who are just causing trouble all the time.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So anyway I appreciate, Michael, your letter.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mary Beth in Chicago: <em>just finished Killing the Rising Sun. It was my Memorial Day week treat to myself. Thank you for a bold fresh perspective on World War II in the Pacific.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>You're welcome. We continue to say that Killing the Rising Sun is an excellent Father's Day gift. And so is Legends &amp; Lies: The Civil War, and so is Old School: Life in the Sane Lane.</p>
<p>Lisa Walsh, Hollywood, Florida: <em>so happy to see your face. Thank you for videoing your podcast. I recently ordered Killing the Rising Sun for my husband for Father's Day. He's currently enjoying Old School, he laughs out loud so much I'm going to have to steal it.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Good. I'm glad you guys are enjoying the books.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Thursday's No Spin News began, of course, with Bill's take on President Trump's major announcement that the USA will be pulling out from the Paris climate agreement.&nbsp; "President Trump believes," Bill stated, "that the Paris accord doesn't do anything because the big polluters like India and China don't have to do anything while it costs the United States a fortune.&nbsp; The green movement says the United States doesn't take this seriously enough and the planet is therefore going to hell.&nbsp; It's a very emotional issue." &nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump worries that the United States, if it stays in the accord, will lose millions of jobs and trillions of dollars.&nbsp; Bill predicted that the non-Fox cable networks will spend the next few days hammering Trump, portraying the president as an enemy of the environment and earth itself.&nbsp; Let the gnashing of teeth begin.</p>
<p>Turning to Washington politics, the House Intelligence Committee is accelerating its probe into Obama officials who may have unlawfully "unmasked" U.S. citizens.&nbsp; Subpoenas have been issued to former Obama foreign policy aides John Brennan, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power.&nbsp; Meanwhile, many people in the capital are eagerly &ndash; maybe nervously &ndash; awaiting next week's testimony by former FBI boss James Comey.</p>
<p>In another major story, Planned Parenthood's annual report shows that it was responsible for 329,000 abortions last year, while only about 3,000 newborns were adopted.&nbsp; That is an outrageous 100 &ndash; 1 ratio.&nbsp; And speaking of social problems, homelessness in Los Angeles is up by 23% in just a single year, primarily because of opioid abuse.&nbsp; It is a massive problem that few people are willing to confront honestly.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill lamented the disturbing news that LeBron James' home was defaced by a loon who scrawled a racial epithet on his home.&nbsp; James, a student of history and always gracious, compared the incident to the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955.&nbsp; Bill opined that while "it is harder to be black than white in America," one disturbed goofball with a can of spray paint should not make anyone forget the great racial progress our nation has made.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bill then introduced a brief snippet from his 15-minute conversation with the inimitable Dennis Miller, who called in from his palatial estate on the West Coast.&nbsp; The D-Man was in a forgiving mood when it came to his fellow comic Kathy Griffin, saying that "she overstepped the boundaries."&nbsp; He added that Griffin will undoubtedly regret her actions forever.&nbsp; As for Trump's bidding adieu to the Paris accord, Miller cited the late author Michael Crichton, who argued that man does not play a large role in global warming.&nbsp; "I remember years ago," Miller recalled, "when I was in Las Vegas and there was a global warming conference and every private jet west of the Mississippi was there.&nbsp; That stuck in my head, I don't think they take it as seriously as they act."&nbsp;</p>
<p>The unabridged, unexpunged, unredacted, and unadulterated 15-minute conversation with Miller will be here on the website and available to everyone on Friday, so log in and catch the entertaining back and forth in its entirety.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thursday's NSN concluded, as always, with comments and questions from BillOReilly.com Premium Members, some of whom opined on the Kathy Griffin incident and CNN's decision to throw her overboard.</p>
<p>Again, Bill's entire conversation with Dennis Miller will be available Friday and all weekend, so log in, sit back, and enjoy.</p>Bill O'Reilly2017-06-01T23:00:00ZO'Reilly on Trump Speculation & Kathy GriffinBill O'Reillyhttp://www.BillOReilly.com/b/OReilly-on-Trump-Speculation--Kathy-Griffin/-591046291058254538.html2017-05-31T22:57:00Z2017-05-31T22:57:00Z<p><a href="http://www.billoreilly.com/video?chartID=329&amp;pid=21757" target="_blank">Click here for the video.</a><br /><br />Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, that's you. Welcome to the No Spin News podcast from BillOReilly.com exclusively. And this is a big day.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Big day, lots of stuff going on. And of course the news agencies don't know how to handle it, don't know how to cover it, which is why there is chaos across the American... at least broadcast news, and print news is kind of dying out.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound too negative here but Scott Pelley, the anchorman for the CBS Evening News, replaced and like nobody says anything about it. Why? What happened? You know, it's really.... Remember when Walter Cronkite retired? Wow, it was a big thing. But now, Pelley is out. He'll stay on 60 Minutes and then Anthony Mason, who's been around forever, is going to be his interim guy. Nobody knows what's going on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But I don't like to watch a lot of television news anymore unless I need information and visuals because my staff is better than what they're reporting. My staff here on BillOReilly.com is light years better than what you're seeing on television.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So Comey, the former FBI director who got fired by President Trump, is now going to testify a week from tomorrow it looks like in front of a Senate committee. I think it's a Senate committee. And now it's wall to wall speculation on the anti-Trump networks, you know who they are, about oh Comey's going to say this or he's going to say that.&nbsp;</p>
<p>How do you know?&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Oh, sources tell us.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>That's so much bull. First of all, it's good Comey's going to testify in public. We Americans should hear what he has to say. Second of all, nobody knows what he's going to have to say. And these idiots on cable news don't know. They're just filling time, just bloviating, BS-ing. They just don't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now if Comey pits himself up against Trump and accuses the president of some kind of bad behavior, then that's huge. Huge. Big, big, big story. But let's wait and see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Donald Trump himself is back in Washington and he says, according to Fox News, and I'm quoting from them, that he's not going to abide by the Paris climate change agreement that President Obama negotiated.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK, why?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Again we don't know why. Why? What's in the agreement, President Trump, that you feel is harming the nation?</p>
<p>That's it. And then I assume that he'll say that, that President Trump will say it. I think he should say it not tweet it. Say <em>look, this is the objections we have. This is why it's hurting the country.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because if he doesn't then he just sets himself up for another two weeks of horror. Even if he explains it, the left is not going to take the explanation, but at least the American people will know. All right, you don't like the agreement. Tell us why. Fair? I think so. So give him a chance. If you're going to pull out of the agreement, tell the world why.</p>
<p>Now, as I reported yesterday on the No Spin News, Merkel and all the Europeans, it's all about climate change. It's not about NATO.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump goes over and he says, <em>look, you guys got to spend more money on defense. You've got to put in more of your national treasury to the NATO alliance.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>What's wrong with that? For decades we've been paying the freight here, we Americans. Come on.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ooh that's insulting, the left-wing says.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Crazy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But on the climate change thing, the left is insane about it. Insane.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now here's my deal. If I were the president, I would not pull out of the Paris agreement unless there was a darn good reason why. Because by doing that, by pulling out of it, you separate yourself from the rest of the world. I don't know if it's God or if it's man that's changing the climate. But it's changing. It is. Might it change back? Sure, it might. And I don't know, I'm not smart enough to know. The only one who knows is the deity. If you don't believe in him...Angela Merkel doesn't know.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But almost everybody wants to deal with climate change somewhat symbolically. I got a kick out of this, the only two nations that didn't sign on to the climate change accord in Paris: Nicaragua, where it's so damn hot you can't breathe, and Syria. Those are the only nations in the world that didn't sign on. So President Trump's got a lot of explaining to do because he's the president. Just tell us why you're out of it, then we can debate it.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kathy Griffin, didn't want to cover it but I have to. It's reached critical mass. Now I know her a little bit. Her mother is an enormous fan of mine. And I did Miss Griffin a couple of favors regarding her Mom. They'll stay private between Kathy and me. I don't like her far-left approach because I think it gets mean spirited. You saw the picture of her holding the head, the decapitated head of President Trump with blood and all that. You know, way out of line. And then there was video of her actually rehearsing that. It didn't seem that she was cognizant of the fact that this was pretty despicable. But then when the Internet got a hold of it and then she gets pounded, then Kathy changes her tune.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I was going to run a soundbite but you heard it a million times and I want to be more original here. This what you're in for. You don't get this on cable, you get her soundbite. But she said, quote: "<em>The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. It wasn't funny. I get it."</em></p>
<p>Well, why didn't you get it 24 hours ago? If you get it now, Kathy, you're a professional, professional comedian. You have to evaluate what's funny and what's not all time. That's what you do. You made a pretty darned good living doing it. So it's not funny, but why did you do it?&nbsp;</p>
<p>She goes on to say: "<em>I've made a lot of mistakes in my career, I'll continue to make them. I ask for your forgiveness.&rdquo;</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. Judeo-Christian philosophy forgives.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>"Taking down the image. Going to ask the photographer to take down the image and I beg your forgiveness. I went too far, I made a mistake, and I was wrong.&rdquo;</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right. I'm not wishing Kathy Griffin ill. CNN fired her from the New Year's Eve show. If I were CNN I probably would have done the same thing because the public relations disaster and these news channels are in it for P.R. now. They're not in it for the news. But Kathy Griffin really doesn't have any news component. They don't need her so they fired her.&nbsp;</p>
<p>President Trump tweeted about it. Now here's another interesting thing. Should the president the United States be talking about somebody like Kathy Griffin?&nbsp;</p>
<p>Let me read you the tweet. And I'd like mail on this. All right. I'd like your opinion on the message boards and on the direct mail, Bill@BillOReilly.com, even I can remember that. All right so here's the tweet from President Trump: <em>Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick.</em>&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. All right. I mean, that's true.&nbsp;</p>
<p>A reaction, that is normal. I'm not going to quibble with it. If President Trump figured that was appropriate I'm not going to say it wasn't. That's not a good thing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK so CNN didn't cover the story. They're too busy speculating about deals that the Trump campaign might have made with Putin, even though there's not one piece of evidence on the table. And they're too busy speculating about what James Comey might say next week, even though they have no blanking clue what he might say. So they couldn't cover the Kathy Griffin thing and... c'mon. You guys are news agencies out there, all right.&nbsp;</p>
<p>OK. So let's get off that and get on to health care.&nbsp;</p>
<p>New poll. Kaiser health tracking poll. Kaiser is a big hospital concern across the country. Fifty-five percent of Americans view the Republican backed healthcare act negatively. Same proportion, 55 percent want the Senate to make major changes to it. Ok, that makes sense, because nobody knows what the Republican backed health care thing is. Nobody knows. And it's incomplete because they had only sent a third of it over to the Senate. And because of voting procedures. So Americans once again are right. We don't know what this is.</p>
<p>How am I going to favor something I don't know what it is? It might be bad for me.&nbsp;</p>
<p>On Obamacare itself, Forty-nine percent now hold favorable views. I think it's more like 40 percent, and half of that are people getting free health care. Forty-nine seems high to me. Forty-two percent have negative views. Those are the people who are paying more in their deductibles and for outright health insurance.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But do Americans understand that all the health care companies are saying we're not going to do this anymore? I don't think so.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The health care stuff, the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, has not been well explained by anybody. Very complicated. Some people are getting a free ride, they love it. Some people are paying more, they hate it. Some people can't see the doctors they want to see because the doctors won't take the insurance, they hate it. Some people on some of these programs that are getting a break, they like it. It's all about your wallet and who you can see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>So, hard for me as a commentator to make a blanket statement, and I'm hoping the Senate comes up with something better. Am I going to put money on that they will? No I'm not.&nbsp;</p>
<p>All right, here's a really interesting story that nobody covered today. In Wisconsin, there is a bill to hold crazy college studen